Invisible wrote:
>   (I believe Lisp macros can
> generate code at runtime, however, which TH definitely cannot do.)

I don't think macros are still around at runtime. What they *can* do is read 
user input at compile time, so you can (for example) make up new kinds of 
literals.

Assume Haskell doesn't have the "0xABC" kind of syntax for hex literals. 
Could you add that with Haskell, or TH?

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