Re: [racket-users] Re: The history of hygiene for definition contexts

2021-07-29 Thread Alexis King
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:53 PM Michael Ballantyne < michael.ballant...@gmail.com> wrote: > The second example you give becomes more natural if you've considered > simpler cases of macros in definition contexts first > I agree that breaking the macro into two parts—one of which inserts a binder

[racket-users] Re: The history of hygiene for definition contexts

2021-07-29 Thread Michael Ballantyne
Section 4.5 of Abdulaziz Ghuloum's PhD thesis is the earliest description I've seen of an algorithm: https://www.proquest.com/openview/f6a12fd14db7fd3ea85cfebbf72e0bc5 It also does not provide much justification. The second example you give becomes more natural if you've considered simpler

[racket-users] Re: The history of hygiene for definition contexts

2021-07-29 Thread Eric Eide
Alexis King writes: > So, my question: when was hygiene for internal definitions first worked out, > and did it make it into any papers, specifications, or documentation? > Hopefully someone (probably Matthew) can provide some insight. I saw an interesting talk about the history of hygenic