Such a system would be very hard to understand and very hard to make efficient, IMO. You will find people who argue in favour of it, and searching for first class macros should turn up some hits.
N. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:31 AM, The Configurator <configura...@gmail.com> wrote: > There must be great reasons why this would be horribly wrong, but why > shouldn't macros and syntaxes be passed as first class objects, method > parameters, return values etc.? > Note that I'm asking why it shouldn't and not why it's not. I'm talking > about the theoretical possibility, not an actual implementation. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users