Brian Harvey wrote: >> I have never actually reached the end with understanding, > > This scares me. If you don't understand macros through and through, > I never will -- which wouldn't matter, except that people keep saying that > various non-macro things can't be understood without first understanding > macros. (Or maybe that's not what they're saying, and I'm even > misunderstanding the meta-discussion!) To take the current example, I'm > not ready to live in a world in which I don't understand the REPL.
There is a *great* tool for understanding macros that comes with PLT, called the macro stepper, developed by Ryan Culpepper. If you can understand reduction, you can understand macros. David _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
