Re: [Chicken-users] syntax-case and Chicken 4.2.0

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Further investigation shows that (according to the manual) Chicken 4
supports the superior method of srfi 46 (an extra parameter to
syntax-rules which binds an identifier as the "ellipsis" identifier.

Which led me to the second part of srfi 46, which allows parameters that
live *after* an ellipsis, so you can have a pattern with something like
(this that ... last) and then (a b c d) matches this->a, (that ...) ->
(b c) and last->d.

Any hope of that making it in?  Is it just awaiting code to implement
it?

Thomas


On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 11:29 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit:
> 
> > In one sense, this is good news!
> 
> The two main pieces of good news in Chicken 4 are built-in macros and
> built-in modules.
> 
> > A question: does the builtin syntax-rules accept the (... ...) syntax
> > that Dybvig's system does?  My code has some macros that expand to macro
> > definitions, the canonical case where nested ... is often necessary.  
> 
> I doubt it, but _solvitur ambulando_.
>