On 18 Sep 2009, at 9:05 pm, Brian Harvey wrote:

>> Meanwhile, syntax-rules macros are sufficiently restricted as to
>> avoid
>> the issue.
>
> I know this is asking a lot, but would someone more experienced in
> macrology
> than I write a syntax-rules version of

Maybe, maybe not; at a cursory inexpert glance there only seem to be
two seemingly-trivial macros therein.

However, syntax-rules certainly isn't enough (IMHO?) to write an OO
system that does sophisticated compile-time analysis of a static class
hierarchy to generate highly optimised generic functions, which is
certainly a useful thing to be able to do!

ABS

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