Eli Barzilay scripsit:

>   * CPP is dealing with raw text
> 
>   * `defmacro' adds more information: it's working with AST structures
>     (s-expressions)
> 
>   * hygienic macros add more information still: the lexical scope
> 
> This is orthogonal to what's known in Scheme as low-level vs
> high-level.  

True.  Nevertheless, cpp *is* high-level: you don't write C code to
reconstruct the result.

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