[plt-scheme] MrMathematica

From: Michael Sperber (sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Fri Jun 11 02:09:37 EDT 2004

>>>>> "Shriram" == Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> writes:

Shriram> If you do this, I strongly encourage you to adopt Olin
Shriram> Shivers's "quasiquoted macro" convention, where the macro is
Shriram> implicitly quasiquoted rather than quoted.  That way if you
Shriram> never unquote it looks the same as if it were quoted, while
Shriram> you still leave the power to unquote within the macro body.
Shriram> (Scsh has several examples of this form.)

I strongly encourage you to take a combinator-based approach.  This
macrology in scsh is a recurring nightmare (it isn't compositional,
for one), and we'll get rid of it in the long run.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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