David Bakhash  <cadet@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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| larsa@bifrost.sim.no (Lars J. Aas) writes:
| > Does anyone know of a better way to structure macros with sub-macros
| > so the internal sub-macros are hidden from the toplevel environment
| > and shared between the (<pattern> <template>) rules?
| 
| In Common Lisp, there's something called MACROLET, and it does a fine
| job of this exact thing, if I understand what you want correctly.  You 
| may consider finding an implementation of this in Scheme.
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Well, for what it's worth, "let-syntax" and "letrec-syntax" are part
of the R5RS standard, so any Scheme implementing R5RS *should* provide
them (along with "define-syntax"). See section "4.3.1 Binding constructs
for syntactic keywords"...


-Rob

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