And, now that we're being careful with our words, I should have said "most macros I have written work well in a hygenic macro system".
Robby On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu> wrote: > In particular, something many people miss -- because of the way > hygiene is presented -- is that a hygienic macro system must have a > deep understanding of the underlying language, at least up to the > level of the binding structure of its constructs. That is how it can > even be sure what is a binding, where it is bound, and thus what can > be painted/renamed/closed over/tweaked/whatever. > > Once you understand that, you realize that it is simply not meaningful > to say that a *macro* is "hygienic" -- that phrase is not even wrong. > > Shriram > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
