Problems with using Macros

• You cannot use a macro if you have to funcall or apply it

• Macro definitions are harder to read

• Macro definitions can be harder to debug

  • The code you see in the backtrace may bear little resemblance to your source code

• Although macros can expand recursively into other macros, you can’t usually write a recursive algorithm with them.

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