[racket] Racket vs Scheme, macros and new syntax

Wow, talk about answers arriving at exactly the right time WRT having
the questions first. This is incredibly helpful to me. For example
barely 3 pages in and the lightbulb goes off re what is
`syntax-local-value', and why. Looking forward to spending more time
with this. Thank you.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Sun, 4 Nov 2012 11:31:04 -0800, Scott Klarenbach wrote:
>> In other words, Is Racket simply a philosophy/convention of language
>> oriented programming with convenient syntactic wrappers to this end, or
>> does it more fundamentally extend Scheme to do things technically *impossible
>> *in that language?
>
> The latter --- a more fundamental extension to Scheme.
>
> Here's our most recent attempt to explain:
>
>  http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/jfp12-draft-fcdf.pdf
>
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