Re: Guile Assembler

[Barry Fishman]

On 2015-06-23 23:00:19 +0200, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote:
> 2015-06-23 14:54 GMT+02:00 Barry Fishman <address@hidden>:
>> This amalgam of 'match' and 'define-syntax's style '...', and
>> 'destructuring-bind' syntax just seems to add complexity to a language
>> whose prime benefit is the clarity of its explicitness and lack of
>> syntax.
>>
>
> I agree that the presence of ellipsis in the pattern matcher is dubious. On
> the other hand, since it's already there, it allows to make it clear to the
> reader that a given argument is meant to be a list.
>
> OTOH I see that it wasn't much of a problem for you to understand the
> code.

I didn't understand the code.  I understood the documentation in its
source file that you referenced.
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Barry Fishman