Re: [racket] Formal Presentation and initial doubts.

I'm interested in a layered approach to learning the macro system, which makes a lot of sense from a learning point of view. I was able to get Matthias's example(s) to work with the aid of DrRacket and a little guesswork (at the level of pattern-matching) to fix the typos, and trivially extended i

Re: [racket] Formal Presentation and initial doubts.

On Mar 22, 2014 3:44 AM, "Daniel Prager" wrote: > > > Does… CL have a pattern-based macro syntax like syntax-rules? > > Not buit-in. > > > If not, it seems surprising to argue that lisp macros would be easier to learn. Can you give examples? > > The explanation of CL macros and their application i

Re: [racket] Formal Presentation and initial doubts.

Konrad Hinsen wrote at 03/22/2014 07:15 AM: --On 22 mars 2014 04:18:03 -0400 Neil Van Dyke wrote: One tip for writing macros: make your transformer pattern variables be all-uppercase. This convention makes reading and writing macros much easier for humans, and also less confusing to learn (bec

Re: [racket] Formal Presentation and initial doubts.

--On 22 mars 2014 04:18:03 -0400 Neil Van Dyke wrote: One tip for writing macros: make your transformer pattern variables be all-uppercase. This convention makes reading and writing macros much easier for humans, and also less confusing to learn (because people seeing examples are less confuse

Re: [racket] Formal Presentation and initial doubts.

Neil Van Dyke wrote at 03/22/2014 04:18 AM: So why not just start with "syntax-parse" or "syntax-rules", Oops, I meant "syntax-parse" or "syntax-case". Neil V. Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Formal Presentation and initial doubts.

Welcome to Racket, Alejandro. The different Racket macro tools are harder to learn than CL's. But once you invest in learning the Racket ones, in my experience, they feel much more sophisticated than CL's. Macros are easily one of Racket's biggest strengths over other languages. There are

Re: [racket] Formal Presentation and initial doubts.

> Does... CL have a pattern-based macro syntax like syntax-rules? Not buit-in. > If not, it seems surprising to argue that lisp macros would be easier to learn. Can you give examples? The explanation of CL macros and their application in On Lisp s