[gambit-list] Black hole documentation

Guillaume Cartier gcartier at jazzscheme.org
Sun Jul 12 11:33:28 EDT 2009


Hi Per,

First question I have is :

Can you elaborate on why you decided to model black hole on
syntax-rules vs other approaches like R6RS syntax-case for instance.
My knowledge of those approaches is very light but it seems that if
R6RS decided to scrap syntax-rules and go for another approach there
must be good reasons. Can you comment on that? It would help a lot in
getting an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of black hole.

Also, I read that syntax-rules doesn't support any kind of
non-hygienic macros. Is that the case for black hole or did you extend
it to support non-hygienic macros?

Thanks,

Guillaume

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Per Eckerdal<per.eckerdal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. The documentation that's supposed to be there is not yet finished, so
> I'm afraid the best documentation of Black Hole that's available at the
> moment is the tutorial at
> http://mwaza.dyndns.org/apps/files/bh-tutorial.html
>
> Feel free to ask questions, that will help me to write more relevant
> documentation; I think it's difficult to document Black Hole, because I
> don't really know what's obvious and not, or where the best place to start
> explaining is.
>
> /Per
>
> 11 jul 2009 kl. 15.24 skrev Guillaume Cartier:
>
>> Are the documentation links for black hole broken? They always ask me
>> to upload a file.
>>
>> http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Black_Hole
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