Your friends here are lambda and pp. Gambit will always expand macros inside a lambda so if you have file x.scm containing :
------------
(define-macro (when test body) `(if ,test (begin ,@body)))
(define (foo x) (when (= x 0) (write 'yo))) ------------
you can do the following
Gambit v4.0.0
(load "x")
"C:\Jazz\dev\jazz\x.scm"
(pp foo)
(lambda (x) (if (= x 0) (begin write 'yo)))
alternatively, if your code is compiled, I suggest always compiling it with -debug that adds no runtime penalty and keeps the source code so you can do
C:\Jazz\dev\jazz>gsc -debug x
C:\Jazz\dev\jazz>gsc Gambit v4.0.0
(load "x")
"C:\Jazz\dev\jazz\x.o1"
(pp foo)
(##lambda (x) (when (= x 0) (write 'yo)))
Guillaume On 10/26/07, Christopher Diggins cdiggins@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could suggest a method of debugging "define-macro" expressions so that I can see what is actually being generated by the macro system (e.g. by preventing evaluation of the resulting macro, and printing it)? Otherwise I get a cryptic messages like "unbound unquote", and "ill-formed expression", but without any hints what is causing the grief in the generated code.
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