On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:15:57PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > defmacros are bound to bite you in the proverbial ass real hard when you > combine them with modules, so it's best to avoid them like the > plague. At least that's my experience, FWIW.
Thanks for the warning. I'd like to understand why this is dangerous, though. Do you have an example for me? Do common-lisp macros suffer from the same problems or is this a scheme specific problem? Please note that I am very new to lisp, so please don't beat me if I ask dumb questions :-)