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This is exactly the response that is a bad response.

All the OP needed is an explanation of the syntax of a Compojure macro. If someone is asking about the syntax of a specific macro, then "you don't understand macros" is not the correct response.

And that sort of thing doesn't work anyway for 90% of people.




That's what I was saying--macros don't work for 90% of people, because 90% of people aren't willing to read the libraries they use. (I'm not a Clojure user, if you're curious.)


The last time I checked, Compojure didn't have a formal description of its core macros. This might have changed.

Anyway, macros are easy to understand. They're hard to grok, but easy to understand. Generally you grok things by using them.




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