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AFAICT, their expansion still happens during an interpretation cycle — but when you "interpret" AST into your byte-code.


Or compile, since it's usually a transformation.

I like to call that the emit phase, as in emitting byte code.

The interesting thing is that it only happens once, before the code is evaluated.




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