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Re: Macros in Dylan

To: Eric Kidd <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Macros in Dylan
From: address@hidden (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:34:13 +0100
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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@pobox.com> writes:

Eric> I think there are two major axes of variation in macro systems:

Eric>   1) Hygienic (Scheme) vs. non-hygienic (LISP).
Eric>   2) Pattern-based (SYNTAX-RULES) vs. programmatic (Lisp, SYNTAX-CASE).

Ermh, SYNTAX-CASE is pattern-based *and* programmatic.  I'd say that
(talking axes) SYNTAX-RULES handles hygiene implicitly and that
SYNTAX-CASE allows you handle hygiene explicitly.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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