You might be interested in the paper 'Fortifying Macros': http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/icfp10-cf.pdf syntax-parse is very cool and can give good error messages if the user makes a mistake when using the macro. About a year ago I tried making an implementation of a system like syntax-parse for Clojure: https://github.com/qbg/syntax-rules Once my development box is revived, I intend to work on a Clojure 1.3 very of it with a simpler implementation.
One of the issues I've encountered when trying to use pattern matching based macros with Clojure is that idiomatic Clojure syntax is very flat, so you need to extend Scheme's syntax-rules before you able to write a small let macro. I can't speak for Rich, but code style macros represent a superset of pattern matching macros, and are also much easier to implement. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
