[racket-dev] When is it safe to not rename a runtime value in a macro?

6 hours ago, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
> 
> In Racket, literal data carry lexical information just like
> identifiers.  When a literal datum is used as an expression, the
> macro expander synthesizes a '#%datum' identifier that determines
> what to do with the literal. The Racket '#%datum' macro just expands
> into a 'quote' expression if the datum is not a keyword.

[And it's not just an academic exerice: I have an LC-like language in
my class where everything is an identifier.  (It makes a nice point
about really having nothing except for lambdas, applications, and
identifiers.)]

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