The big miss here is that "compile time" is typically understood to be "batch compilation" time for languages. For Common LISP, macros run at read time. Which is often doable during runtime.

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BoingBoomTschak 2 days ago | parent [-]

No, macros run at compile time (cf https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_bb...), you may be confusing macros and reader macros.

	▲	taeric 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Fair that I was definitely mixing them in my thinking. My general point was supposed to be simply that "compile time" is probably not what people are thinking of when coming from other languages. I was clearly a bit too eager to try and say that, though. :(