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masak a couple of new slogans that I've come up with in the past few days 07:49
"quasi code never runs"
(that one is obvious once you start thinking about it)
"macro-expanded code is always synthetic" -- controversial, but useful, I think 07:50
also thinking of introducing the term "facsimile" to denote code that has been expanded because of a macro
the term is meant to evoke that something has been copied into an identical clone 07:51
because each concrete macro expansion produces a distinct facsimile, even when everything else is kept the same
update: jnthn thinks I should use the terms "replicate"/"replica" instead 09:29
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