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@sebmck @RReverser nice, I think this is really the only limiting factor preventing macros in babel now

@codemixers @rreverser I don't understand why people want macros in the first place. Only reason I haven't really looked into it.

@sebmck @RReverser macros are insanely useful if used judiciously. consider things like debug builds with additional logging etc

@codemixers @rreverser Do you have an example? Not sure how additional syntax makes that any better.

@sebmck @RReverser one is shorthand for fast iteration, here's an ugly example - https://github.com/codemix/fast.js/pull/21 … - emulates `.map` with a for loop

@codemixers @rreverser That's not related to logging?

@sebmck @RReverser ah true, https://gist.github.com/phpnode/804d69ea603926039739 …

@sebmck @RReverser updated the gist, it can be done with decorators + conditional compilation but not without allocating a closure