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		mbrock on Nov 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) Isn't that really hard to implement correctly in Common Lisp? Your macro would need to perform a continuation-passing style transformation on arbitrary code that could involve jumps, error, etc.

truncate on Nov 5, 2018 [–]

You don't need to do CPS transformations if your language supports first class continuations. Lookup `call/cc`

mbrock on Nov 6, 2018 | [–]

Indeed, but Common Lisp doesn’t!

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