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Explaining macros

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
clojure
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No file or documentation entry point is identified. Review the existing documentation structure, then use clojure.core examples such as defn, when, and cond with macro-expand-1 and macro-expand-all; done means the macro behavior and expansion results are explained with examples.

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Description

Using examples from clojure.core
defn
when cond (as alternatives to if)

using macro-expand-1 and macro-expand-all to show the results of expanding macro.

Dominant language
Makefile
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117
Forks
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No merged PRs in 30d

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