Norman Ramsey wrote:
> I would love to hear from a real Lisp macro hacker who has also done
> lazy functional progrmaming.
I am such a person.
Lisp macros are a way to extend the Lisp compiler. Dylan's example
shows why this reflective power is sometimes useful. Here is another
example. I once wrote a macro to help express pattern-matching rules.
In these rules, variables that began with a question mark were treated
specially.
Having learned Haskell, I am not tempted to go back to Lisp. Yet I
occasionally wish for some sort of reflective syntactic extension.
- Tim Sauerwein
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