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From: | Alaric Snell-Pym |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] macro systems and chicken (long) |
Date: | Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:10:37 +0100 |
On 4 Apr 2008, at 4:22 pm, John Cowan wrote:
Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:Syntax-rules is handy for simple stuff, but I'd hate for it to be the only macro system I had - I like to think of it as a shorthand for a reasonably common case, TBH.I think quite otherwise: I would never write a macro in any system other than syntax-rules -- all other macro systems strike me as standing on a foundation of quicksand.
Oooh, interesting! Pray tell? My position, I suppose, is that I'm personally quite interested in quite complex macros. Such as, for example, ones that implement quite different programming languages by really being a compiler from them into Scheme... ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?author=4
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