I was browsing the clojure source and I was surprised by the way the when macro is defined:
user=> (source when)
(defmacro when
"Evaluates test. If logical true, evaluates body in an implicit do."
{:added "1.0"}
[test & body]
(list 'if test (cons 'do body)))
nil
user=>
I was expecting it to be written something like this instead:
(defmacro when [test & body] `(if ~test (do ~@body)))
Why was the actual macro written in this less usual way?
