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I've noticed the same thing with Clojure. I only dig into macros to remove boilerplate, like when using APIs provided in other JVM languages.

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I've been using macros in Clojure to write my own object system. It seems to me that for serious meta-programming in Haskell, you have to use Template Haskell, and from what I've heard, it's not nearly as flexible.

It seems to me that for serious meta-programming in Haskell, you have to use Template Haskell, and from what I've heard, it's not nearly as flexible.

"seems" and "heard" is the best you can do? Try it, and you'll find that it's very easy to meta-program in Haskell, even without macros.

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