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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu>
Cc: "dev@racket-lang.org" <dev@racket-lang.org>,
	Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [racket-dev] Enhancement to the syntax system?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:26:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9z7tz6n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120710150315.B7B27650059@mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu> (Matthew Flatt's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:03:14 -0600")

Hi,

Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu> skribis:

> It's natural --- but not correct --- to think that #` is responsible
> for hygiene, in which case `(f #'x)' should keep the given `x' separate
> from the `let'-bound `x' in the result.

[...]

> If you change the example to
>
>  #lang racket
>  (begin-for-syntax 
>   (define-syntax-rule (f body)
>     #`(let ([x 1]) body)))
>  (define-syntax (m stx)
>    (with-syntax ([zz (f x)]) #`(let ([x 2]) zz)))
>  (m)
>
> so that `f' is used as a macro instead of a function, then you get 2,
> since the macro-expansion of `(f x)' keeps the `x's separate.

Interesting.  Thanks for the clarification and examples.

Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-10 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-30 15:22 Enhancement to the syntax system? Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-02 19:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-02 20:43   ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-02 22:41     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-03 14:37       ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-03 21:33         ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-03 21:52           ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-04  7:47             ` Marijn
2012-07-04  8:04               ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-09 15:52             ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-09 17:40               ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-10  8:24                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-10 13:35                   ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-10 14:34                     ` Marijn
2012-07-10 14:51                       ` [racket-dev] " Eli Barzilay
     [not found]                         ` <20476.16781.257276.194149-a5nvgYPMCZcx/1z6v04GWfZ8FUJU4vz8@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-10 15:03                           ` Matthew Flatt
2012-07-10 15:26                             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-07-10 15:44                               ` [racket-dev] " Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-10 17:47                                 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-07-10 16:48                             ` Eli Barzilay
2014-05-03 21:29                             ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2012-07-10 15:44                           ` Ryan Culpepper
2012-07-10 15:22                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-10  7:36               ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe

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