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

[Eli Barzilay <eli@x>]

25 minutes ago, Alex Shinn wrote:
> 
> The point is that the popular macro systems outside the syntax-case
> family all do not and _cannot_ support raw single-arity macro
> transformers.  They are fundamentally incompatible.  The only known
> solution is to use wrappers, which is why syntax-rules and the ER
> and SC family all use wrappers.

Right, see my earlier post.

> If you want to insist on exposing the transformer signature, then
> you're arguing that none of the other macro systems are worth
> supporting,

Wrong, same post.


> and no future innovation is worth investigating.

Even more wrong.  (Same post, still.)

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