On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > 6 hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> >> Eli wrote an excellent introduction to Racket macros on >> comp.lang.scheme recently, which I've encouraged him to post on the >> Racket blog. > > I'm not sure how "excellent" it is, but I posted it now. Please let > me know if you see any obvious problems.
It looks like a great macro essay for a certain crowd (altho the essay seems to insult that selfsame crowd; perhaps you are assuming that that crowd is into S&M?). Some comments: - I probably would have used #` in the second while macro. Yes, I see you mention it later, but doing it at that point seems to fit with what the reader's been given at that point - it would be good if you did some kind of a computation at compile time, preferably to demonstrate an interesting computation one should want to do at compile time. Maybe a macro that embeds a formatted source location into its output? - cpp macros are, I believe, based on lexemes, not strings (so you cannot have an unclosed string in a macro or something). At least nowadays they are. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
