Re: are dylan macros Turing-complete?

[address@hidden (Rainer Joswig)]

Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org> wrote in message news:<87bsboyx9k.fsf@andreas.org>...
> Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> In fact, the big difference between Lisp macros and Dylan macros is
> that Dylan is infix.  Not supporting procedural macros was an
> arbitrary design choice,

The big difference between Dylan-Macros and Common-Lisp-Macros is
that Dylan-Macros are not procedural.