[r6rs-discuss] Proposed features for small Scheme, part 1: a stake in the ground

Grant Rettke grettke at acm.org
Sat Sep 5 12:22:27 EDT 2009


On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Brian Harvey<bh at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> even now I feel somewhat, that the
> central new concern of R5, hygienic macros, was a case of someone thinking
> they know what's good for me.

Regardless of their intent then, today I feel like hygienic macros are
a no-brainer for "programming in the large" when you have macros that
rely on macros that rely on macros... Perhaps they should add defmacro
or something similar; if the users want it then why not.



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