[plt-scheme] Macro is misbehaving...

On 12/06/06, Ryan Culpepper <ryan_sml at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, I'm starting to see the problem.
>
> You want to distinguish between two cases:
> 1) If "s" *evaluates to*  a symbol, then return the symbol
> 2) If "s" *has the syntactic form* (method arg ...), then call the
> method
>
> You are mixing static and dynamic criteria. Instead, why don't you
> rewrite the first case as:
> 1) If "s" has the syntactic form of just the identifier "next"
>
> Then you can write the macro like this:
>
> (define-syntax slide/foo
>   (syntax-rules (next)
>     [(slide/foo obj next)
>      'next]
>     [(slide/foo obj (method arg ...))
>      (send obj method arg ...)]))
>
> (I'll let you generalize it to multiple things after the "obj".)
>
> > Still, can't understand your explanation on why this doesn't work.
> > next should never be evaluated. Afterall (quote next) is exactly
> > not to evaluate next.
>
> Only if "(quote next)" is used as an expression. In the code your
> macro produced, it wasn't.
>
> Ryan

Humm, yes, it makes sense now. Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
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