Do macros actually work in Snap!?

[qw23]

I wouldn’t want to beat about the bush … I question if macros are actually a feature of Snap! 8.2.3.

The general idea (according to the Ref.Man.) is that “… the result of a macro call is a new expression that is evaluated as if it appeared in the caller of the macro, with access to the caller’s variables …”. This is what I tried:

Well, perhaps it should be done like this:

The second version works OK, but how is it different from the next (= third) version? which IMO doesn’t deserve to be called a macro:

Same with the example in the Ref.Man., I don’t get it.
Am I overlooking something?

[cookieclickerer33]

I think this might be easier with the 9.0 block

Something like this, maybe arranged differently

[bh]

I'm not surprised if there are things that don't work. I hope hope hope that by Snap!Con everything will be clean and beautiful and reliable and understandable.

[d4s_over_dt4]

9.0 is out???

[d4s_over_dt4]

@bh

I hope hope hope

hope Hope hopes(?)

[loucheman]

@d4s_over_dt4

9.0 is out???

in development version

[cookieclickerer33]

Not yet but there’s a beta version

[coder_07]

he really hopes

@bh

that by Snap*!*Con everything will be clean and beautiful and reliable and understandable.

[d4s_over_dt4]

Oh oof.
To me,that type of phrasing is like putting three half reflectors and some magnifying glasses like this and expecting it to split stuff into 8: