Re: syntax closures

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>]

Just saw this.

Right, "syntactic closures" is the name of a macro system by Alan
Bawden and Jonathan Rees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_closures

http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-ref/Syntactic-Closures.html#Syntactic-Closures

So, it would be good to choose a different name if what you are doing
is different.

BTW, the sc-macro-transformer facility of MIT-scheme would be nice to have. :-)

Best regards,
Mikael D.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Alex Shinn <alexshinn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe
> <stefan.itampe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2. I was actually hesistant to call this srfi-72 because of trying to
>> do what it want
>>    more than what it say's. A main trick to simulate the effect was to
>> introduce
>>    a closure in the syntax at one point and therefore a choose the name
>>    syntax-closure not knowing that there is an already a notion of
>> that in the wild
>
>
> Oh - I thought you were referring to the existing syntactic-closures.
> I guess it's a plausible enough name to reuse coincidentally...
>
> Carry on then :)
>
> --
> Alex
>