Posts about Bootstrapped ClojureScript Macros

macros.md

We've learned a bit about how ClojureScript's macro system works in bootstrapped mode over the past half year.

Here is a collection of posts I've made on the subject.

But first, it's probably worth reading https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Differences-from-Clojure#macros

• Portable Macro Musing was written prior to bootstrapped macros really being available (really—at the time all you could do was stuff like this.
• Runtime macroexpand is about using bootstrap's runtime capability to expand macros.
• Messing with Macros at the REPL explores a bit about how bootstrap macros are put into a pseudo-namespace.
• ClojureScript Macro Tower and Loop digs into the idea of compilation stages.
• ClojureScript Macros Calling Functions talks about how bootstrap ClojureScript macros can "cleanly" call ClojureScript functions.
• Collapsing Macro Tower shows a case that works in bootstrap without needing to add additional namespaces in order to satisfy the ClojureScript macro compilation model.