kend@data.UUCP (Ken Dickey) (05/30/91)
wilson@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson) writes: >On the other hand, if there are really serious technical obstacles to >defining a least-common-denominator macro facility, I'd be interested >in hearing them. A general discussion of problems with macros can be found in: E. E. Kohlbecker, Syntactic Extensions in the Programming Language Lisp, Computer Science Technical Report #199 (Ph.D. Dissertation), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, August 1986. and E. E. Kohlbecker, D. P. Friedman, M. Felleisen and B. Duba, Hygienic macro expansion, Symposium on LISP and Functional Programming, August 1986, 151-161. A discussion of problems and a fairly "current" status of macros can be found in: W. Clinger & J. Rees, "Macros That Work", in the 1991 POPL Proceedings (ACM Press--I don't have the complete reference). I keep hearing that R4RS should be out Real Soon Now (Hi Will 8^). -Ken Dickey kend@data.uucp