>>36trolled us all by posting an ill-imposed problem.
Not at all. I was just trying to find out if s-exp languages have any actual advantages for writing macros. Lispers talk much about how cool "code is data" is, and how much easier writing macros is with s-exps. Yet it seemed to me that most of their macros are
generative, which the s-exps are not particularly advantageous for (it can be done in any "blub" language, just look at Nemerle or Rust or Metalua, for example). So I wondered if homoiconicity is good for
transformative macros. And it turns out that you can't even write a reliable function-swapping macro with it. At least with the s-exp kind of homoiconicity.