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(defmacro new-if [pred then-clause else-clause]
`(cond ~pred ~then-clause
:else ~else-clause))
"This works, in that if I call it like so:
"
(new-if (= 2 3) (while true (print "hi")) :bye)
"I don't get an infinite loop, but I don't understand how. I've unquoted everything in the macro body, so shouldn't the normal evaluation order apply? Why doesn't it evaluate then-clause when I do it this way?
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