From Aleksandr Pasechnik to ~rabbits/uxn
Hi Friends! Reading through some of the big programs like Left, it seems like macros don’t really get used much. They are featured pretty prominently in the first days of the tutorial but then fade away. Are macros a non-canonical way to write uxntal? Am I missing the programs that use them more? Is there something about their performance or ergonomics that make them less desirable? I would have thought that they would make more "self-documenting" for smaller bits of logic, as an extension to the way subroutines do it for larger chunks. But I also haven't written much code yet and maybe I'm bringing patterns from other language into uxntal that don't