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Created December 2, 2009 00:19 — forked from lsparrish/On the use of ` (back tick) in macros
Commentary on the use of ` in compiler macros

Compiler macros are often used to lay down code in the calling word. You'll see something like:

: foo ['] + compile ['] . compile ; immediate

This is fine, but sometimes you need to deal with other macros: