Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers

[Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>]

On 05/11/11 12:41, Alex Shinn wrote:
>
> Are you actually arguing that MIT Scheme, Chicken,
> Chibi, riaxpander and others should have to rewrite
> their entire macro system?  When there's a trivial
> compromise available?
>

What trivial compromise do you have in mind, Alex?

Mine is that the exact nature of an expander is
implementation-dependent, and that's what macros like "syntax-rules" et
al are for: to map from standard forms into the common one. Might not
even be a closure, although that is an obvious choice?

ABS

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