[racket] Generate Syntax Identifiers

format-id from racket/syntax?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:13:40 +0100, Ray Racine <ray.racine at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> What little macro-fu I ever had abandoned me long back.
>
> Say I want to generate an identifier, e.g. add a standard suffix.
>
> So if my identifier is `hello', the suffix `-tmp' is appended forming
> `hello-tmp'.
>
> The following gets there but I seem to recall using an easier technique  
> in
> days of lore.
>
>  [(_ name:id e0:expr e1:expr ...)
>  (with-syntax ((name-tmp (datum->syntax stx (string->symbol  
> (string-append
> (symbol->string (syntax->datum #'name))
>
>               "-tmp")))))
>
> Is there an easier way to append together syntax?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray


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