[plt-scheme] Good intro to Scheme macros?

From: David Herman (dherman at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 8 09:56:01 EST 2003

Oops, I see you mentioned readscheme.org ... well, I still recommend 
"Macros that Work" for a description of hygiene.

On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 05:48 PM, Bill Clementson wrote:

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> Has anyone come across a good introduction to Scheme
> macros? I found Shriram Krishnamurthi's "Macros and
> their Impact on Language Design" paper and found it to
> be a quite good. What other introductory papers are
> good starters on Scheme macros? What I'm specifically
> after is the rationale for hygienic macros and a bit
> of an insight into how the Scheme macro system
> evolved. I know that there are a lot of papers on
> Scheme macros on readscheme.org but most of them seem
> to deal with a specific facet of Scheme macros. Is
> there some paper that looks at Scheme macros a bit
> more "holistically"?
>
> TIA
>
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