Re: [racket] Wikipedia redux

2013-04-18 Thread John Clements
On Apr 18, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > FWIW this has a good (but brief) summary of the racket enhancements. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_(computer_science)#Hygienic_macros Actually… I think you're referring to the text that I just inserted :). My bad for saying "t

Re: [racket] Wikipedia redux

2013-04-18 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
FWIW this has a good (but brief) summary of the racket enhancements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_(computer_science)#Hygienic_macros The hygienic macros page has a big section devoted to strategies in languages that lack a hygienic macro system. S. On Wednesday, 17 April 2013, John Clements

[racket] Wikipedia redux

2013-04-17 Thread John Clements
I visited the Wikipedia page on Hygienic macros today, and was a bit appalled to see a laundry list of languages with hygienic macros that made no reference to Racket. I added a short paragraph on two novel features of Racket's syntactic system (towers of evaluation and enforestation), but anyon