[plt-scheme] Non-hygenic Macro Revelation

From: Carl Eastlund (carl.eastlund at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 25 18:16:56 EDT 2010

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:12 PM,  <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I disagree; I meant there's no right solution without a documented specification. If you specify what implicit bindings it defines (and with syntax-case, you need to specify what marks it uses) then there *is* a right solution.

Er... by "with syntax-case" do you mean with Dybvig's hygienic macro
system?  Because syntax-case is just a pattern matcher.  I suppose it
is somewhat unfortunate that they were proposed in the same paper, and
the more interesting part of it was never given a separate name.

--Carl


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