re: macroexpand

there are two macro-expansions available:

macroexpand-1 or macroexpand-all

a macro is a code-rewriter or template engine

think of it like a super-powerful search-and-replace for code

kind of how the C language has a pre-processor which handles #define statements

Clojure’s macros are evaluated at “compile” time

and they re-write your code (usually to a longer version)

macros can generate code that contains. … other macros

this re-writing (or expansion) is recursive

but eventually you will hit something truly “primitive” like a function

macroexpand-1 only does 1 level of macro rewriting

macroexpand-all will go all the way down the rabbit hole and do all of the recursive expansion till you ground out

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