On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Konrad Hinsen
<konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2011, at 05:04, Ken Wesson wrote:
>
>>> One approach that has been proposed to improve composability of macros is
>>> to
>>> adopt a continuation-passing style. This would make macros a candidate
>>> for
>>> the continuation monad, so perhaps monads may be of use in implementing
>>> complex macros.
>>
>> That popcorn-popping sound you hear is heads exploding out there in
>> the audience.
>
> Maybe this article will help understand what I was referring to - noting
> that this is for Scheme and not Clojure:
>
> http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/CPS-Macros.ps.gz

Oh, I'm not saying my own is exploding -- just that macros can be
tough for some people to get their heads around, and monads even more
so, so combining the two ...

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