Re: Please explain different macros

[Dale P. Smith]

Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 
> "Dale P. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Could someone please explain (in plain english) the differences
> > between the 3 different kinds of "native" macros that Guile
> > supports.  As opposed to the system in r5rs?  We have acro, macro
> > and mmacro.
> 
> Given the form
> 
>     (foo ...)
> 
> the following things happen when it is evaluated:

...

Thanks!  That helps.

> If you do not have a very special reason to use one of the
> `procedure->...' functions, you should avoid them.  Use `defmacro',
> `define-macro' or `define-syntax' instead.

I just grabbed the docs for those because they were almost identical.

So: defmacro is acro, define-macro is macro, define-syntax is mmacro ?

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