[plt-scheme] literal html data in servlets
You can get this in Matthew's world w/o any problem. It's even appeared
in DrDobb's so no excuse -- Matthias
P.S. Having said that, I am in TOTAL agreement with Eli. Don't define a
macro when a function can do. A good compiler will one day take care of
this problem.
On Aug 19, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
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> Eli Barzilay wrote:
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>> 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>
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> The original version with a step by step derivation of the
> macro is found in his thesis.
>
> --
> Jens Axel Søgaard
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