[plt-scheme] literal html data in servlets

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Fri Aug 19 15:05:57 EDT 2005

Eli Barzilay wrote:

> That's a dangerous argument -- you should make sure that the overhead
> from using a function is substantial enough to justify a macro.
> Macros are less convenient to deal with, if only due to the fact that
> you can no longer treat it as a first class object to pass it around
> or to apply it on a list of things.

Waddell's define-integrable macro gives you the best of both worlds.

     <http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/syntax.html#./syntax:s57>

The original version with a step by step derivation of the
macro is found in his thesis.

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard



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