[r6rs-discuss] R6 counterproposal

[Lynn Winebarger]

Thomas Lord wrote:
> R. Kent Dybvig wrote:
>> In fact, syntax-case is strictly more expressive than the old-style Lisp
>> macros represented by defmacro.  
> 
> Surely syntactic closures suitable for implementing syntax-case
> are a trivial application of fexpr-style macros and first-class
> environments, wouldn't you agree?
> 

    I believe the issue would be passing along syntactic information 
through non-macro forms.  What you would need is something that would be 
applied to every form.

Lynn