Re: syntax closures

[Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com>]

I didn't know that this was a taken name already,

Let's call it guile-srfi-72, In the end it is a srfi-72 simulator that mix
well with the current guile macro system but is not a perfect replacement
(yet)

I'll check it out, But srfi-72 really covers a need I have when
writing macros with
syntax-parse.

I'll check the sc-macro-transformer out.

/Stefan

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com> wrote:
> 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
>>