From: Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>
To: Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>,
Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Understanding `symbol??` macro from okmij.org
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:01:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ECD9C8A-9319-43E6-98C2-D397636C7515@abou-samra.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plvwwyw3.fsf@laura>
> Ah, and I though that syntax-rules was always written in term of
> syntax-case. I see. Thank you!
Yeah, it most most often is these days, but historically, syntax-rules was invented before syntax-case. IIRC, the choice to include syntax-case in R6RS was controversial because syntax-rules was expressed in terms of different low-level abstractions in some Scheme implementations ("explicit substitutions" or something like that).
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-14 0:18 Understanding `symbol??` macro from okmij.org Zelphir Kaltstahl
2024-03-14 1:01 ` Jean Abou Samra
2024-03-14 1:03 ` Maxime Devos
2024-03-14 13:46 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2024-03-14 14:52 ` Olivier Dion
2024-03-14 15:57 ` Jean Abou Samra
2024-03-14 16:39 ` Olivier Dion
2024-03-14 18:01 ` Jean Abou Samra [this message]
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