Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com> wrote:
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| A Common Lisp-like macro system is considered *too* powerful
| by many Scheme proponents.
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Though certainly not all. Myself, the very first thing I do when I
come across a new Scheme implementation is find out what sort of
low-level macro facility there is, then define CL-style "defmacro"
in it (if it's not already there), and then forget the idiosyncratic
system and just do everything with "defmacro"... but YMMV.

[By the way, one can have it both ways: There's an implementation
of Scheme's hygenic macros in terms of "defmacro" in SLIB...]

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| It would allow you to violate lexical scoping, which they
| consider sacred.
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Unless you *like* anaphoric macros...  ;-}


-Rob

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