Re: Trying to understand the "rx" macro.

Brian and Rolf,

   Thanks for the excellent explanation and for the pointer
to William's ps.gz file. I now understand how the macro works
and how I will go forward.

Best Regards,
 Igor.

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:34 PM, RT Happe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>