An hour ago, Philippe Meunier wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >It's more than that -- the "theoretically advanced ... but" that he
> >uses shows off that he really considers the CL macros to be more
> >advanced.
>
> That's because he apparently only knows about syntax-rule and not
> syntax-case. [...]
Yeah, I said earlier that it's "hygiene ignorance (which is overall
very popular in the CL world, usually a by-product of equating
"hygiene" with `syntax-rules')". The bottom line is if you mail him
(or maybe post on c.l.l) you won't get far: you can claim that you can
do any macro that he can and do so, but once he (or any average cller)
sees `syntax-case' you'll get flamed because *obviously* he was
talking about "standard scheme", and *obviously* he rightfully doesn't
know or care about whatever insignificant local extensions racket made
on top of that.
A new piece in such games is the fact that R6RS *does* have
`syntax-case' etc, and -- unsurprisingly -- that doesn't help either.
(You'll get flamed because it's controversial, or because it was
published after the book came out, or maybe I can just put you on hold
for a minute because I have something in the oven.)
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((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:
http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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