Re: are dylan macros Turing-complete?

[Bruce Hoult <address@hidden>]

In article <it5y87j6nv.church.of.emacs@localhost.verbum.private>,
 Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> wrote:

> Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org> writes:
> 
> > That's not part of the Dylan spec, but you've got to generate your
> > parse tree *somewhere*.  In many compilers you'd find almost exactly
> > the same thing as a parse rule in a yacc file.  In Dylan, the parser
> > and macro expansion interact too much to do that.
> 
> Ok, I understand that.  I just wanted to make sure that it was in fact
> not part of the standard; this is a large conceptual difference
> between Lisp macros and Dylan macros.

Really?

What does the "setf" macro expand to in your favourite Lisp compiler?

-- Bruce