glauber <theglauber@my-deja.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Is there a tutorial for Scheme macros anywhere? I know enough Common
| Lisp to write "safe" macros there, thanks to Paul Graham, but the
| section on "syntax" of R5RS COMPLETELY baffled me.
| I'm using mzscheme.
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This isn't exactly what you were asking, but...

MzScheme provides CL-style "defmacro" in the "compat.ss" library.
Or if you don't need/want all of that particular library:

	(define-macro defmacro
	  (lambda (name args . body)
	    `(define-macro ,name (lambda ,args ,@body))))

Just remember to use "." instead of "&rest".  ;-}  ;-}

[Confession: I never use R5RS macros myself, just "defmacro".]


-Rob

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