On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:42:57AM -0500, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: >> I haven't seen this book mentioned here before, so: >> >> http://letoverlambda.com/ >> >> It is, well, a very particular perspective on things, but I've heard >> people speak well of it. > > It looks interesting. Very unSchemeish, though. Chapter 6, on > anaphoric macros, seems to celebrate unhygienicity. > > -- hendrik
The following passage is particularly unsettling. "Even the vast majority of Scheme systems, the platform that has experimented the most with hygiene, provide unhygienic defmacro-style macros—presumably because not even Scheme implementors take hygiene very seriously. Like training wheels on a bicycle, hygiene systems are for the most part toys that should be discarded after even a modest level of skill has been acquired." --Carl _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
