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The C language, just like Lisp, has a macro system that allows one to extend the language with new syntax. Unlike Lisp's, however, C macros are not an integral part of the language; they are loaded and expanded before the actual compilation happens by the utility called the preprocessor, which parses C code before passing it to the further stages of the C toolchain.
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© 2020 Michał "phoe" Herda
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Herda, M.“. (2020). Appendixes. In: The Common Lisp Condition System. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6134-7_5
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