[gambit-list] Proposal for lightweight real hygienic macros in Gambit

Alex Queiroz asandroq at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 12:10:58 EDT 2012


Hallo,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Marijn <hkBst at gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> I would be interested in knowing how this proposal compares with
> implementing a low-level hygienic macro system such as syntactic
> closures or explicit renaming macros. Actually now that I said that
> this proposal sounds very much like a (partial?) implementation of
> explicit renaming macros on top of the defmacro system. Doesn't the
> paper you referenced mention something like that as well?
>

I would rather have syntactic closures as well. The paper contribution
seems to be focused on the fact that it's possible to write hygienic
macros on top of unhygienic macros and symbol macros, which is what
Common Lisp has. Besides it says that a code walker is not needed, but
that is not a necessity if the macro system would be integrated in
Gambit.

Cheers,
-- 
-alex
http://www.artisancoder.com/



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