Macro Recursion is not like Function Recursion

(defmacro nth* (n list)

`(if (= ,n 0) (car ,list)

(nth* (- ,n 1) (cdr ,list))))

• It is an error to macroexpand nth* because it will macroexpand forever

• N is not defined until runtime

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