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Re: [PATCH] Replace define-macro with syntax-rules
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Taylan Ulrich B. |
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Re: [PATCH] Replace define-macro with syntax-rules |
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Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:24:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) |
Ian Price <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich B.) writes:
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>> (define-syntax endianness
>> (syntax-rules ()
>> ((_ big) 'big)
>> ((_ little) 'little)))
> Except now whenever you use it, you only ever get big endianness. You
> forgot to add big and little to the literals list.
Doh! Can't believe I made such a mistake, must write more Scheme. :)
Well, actually, it will still coincidentally work because the `big' in
`'big' (`(quote big)') will refer to the pattern variable. (Essentially
we made an alias to `quote'.)