Re: Trying to understand the "rx" macro.

RT Happe <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:34:36 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.scsh
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Brian D. Carlstrom wrote [a short explanation of s48 low-level macros].

Addendum: I don't seem to find the paper on explicit renaming macros,
to be read as an introduction to the s48 low level macro facility,
in the scsh/s48 tarball, but the .ps.gz

   William D Clinger. Hygienic macros through explicit renaming
   http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/papers.html

should do the job as well.


> symbols. the third comparator argument function is less frequently  
> used
> as the gensym function, but I believe it is used to compare symbols  
> for
> equality taking into account any newly gensymed symbols, etc.

To avoid terminological confusion: the "symbols/gensyms" aren't symbols
but generated names.


rt