[r6rs-discuss] R6 counterproposal

From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:40:22 -0400

Thomas Lord wrote:
> R. Kent Dybvig wrote:
>> In fact, syntax-case is strictly more expressive than the old-style Lisp
>> macros represented by defmacro.
>
> Surely syntactic closures suitable for implementing syntax-case
> are a trivial application of fexpr-style macros and first-class
> environments, wouldn't you agree?
>

    I believe the issue would be passing along syntactic information
through non-macro forms. What you would need is something that would be
applied to every form.

Lynn
Received on Tue May 29 2007 - 11:40:22 UTC