> Smalltalk doesn’t need macros because it has classes, powerful introspection capabilities, and simple expressive syntax (especially blocks) instead.
There's a debate to be had if compile-time macros are superior to passing blocks as arguments. It also is easy to make your language parser extensible or easy to modify without having traditional lisp macros. Metalua does something like this.
> Smalltalk doesn’t need macros because it has classes, powerful introspection capabilities, and simple expressive syntax (especially blocks) instead.
There's a debate to be had if compile-time macros are superior to passing blocks as arguments. It also is easy to make your language parser extensible or easy to modify without having traditional lisp macros. Metalua does something like this.