Given that Guile hasn&#39;t adopted R6RS style quasiquotation yet (and I don&#39;t know if it ever will), here&#39;s a workaround I&#39;ve come up with.<div><br></div><div>This is also in reply to Hans Aberg&#39;s question regarding Backquote simplification.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Basically, this is the story:</div><div><br></div><div>(unquote x1 x2 ... xn) ---&gt; (unquote-splicing (list x1 x2  ... xn)) [naturally this MUST be contained within another list or vector]</div><div>
<br></div><div>(unquote-splicing x1 x2 ... xn) ---&gt; (unquote-splicing (append x1 x2 ... xn) [same as above]</div><div><br></div><div>(unquote (quote x1 x2 ... xn)) ---&gt; (unquote-splicing (quote (x1 x2 ... xn))) [idem]</div>
<div><br></div><div>That should cover all one&#39;s needs of applying these operators on arbitrary length lists of elements. This works in Common Lisp as well, although there&#39;s no need for this except in specific cases because they got it right with backquotes from the very beginning :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>With the reader macros it comes out like this:</div><div><br></div><div>,@(list ...)</div><div><br></div><div>,@(append ...)</div><div><br></div><div>,@&#39;( ... )</div><div><br></div><div>respectively.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps anybody who was struggling with this issue.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rocco Rossi<br><br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:rocco.rossi@gmail.com">rocco.rossi@gmail.com</a><br>Profilo: <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/rocco.rossi">http://www.google.com/profiles/rocco.rossi</a><br>
<br>&quot;Sono nato senza conoscere nulla e ho avuto un po&#39; di tempo per cambiare qua e là questa mia condizione.&quot; (Richard P. Feynman)<br><br>
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