[r6rs-discuss] R6 counterproposal

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 00:49:57 -0400

Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:

> In my experience, defmacro is capable of defining any syntactic
> transform that the more modern Scheme macros can.

I should think so: the whole point of high-level macro schemes is that
they are not Turing-complete over the domain of the source text, and
therefore they can be given a (partly) declarative interpretation.
Syntax-rules is of course entirely declarative.

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