On 2020/02/04 08:56:49, hanwenn wrote: > On 2020/02/03 12:11:08, dak wrote: > > > What is wrong with the code I propose in this change? > > > > You mean define-syntax? I'd like to avoid it for now since people have no way > > of getting acquainted with it, and most new developers have never worked with > > Scheme before. > > I don't understand this argument. If we have no new developers that know Scheme, > they wouldn't know what to do with defmacro either? Am I missing something?
defmacro works in user documents. define-syntax doesn't. That gives people a way to get acquainted with defmacro that doesn't exist yet for define-syntax . > I didn't know about define-syntax before writing this patch, and I learned by > googling around for it. https://codereview.appspot.com/553480044/