[comp.lang.scheme.c] macro facility question

walter@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (02/18/91)

  Does anybody know of a manual page  for the 
  macro, define-macro facility for MIT Scheme ?

      Thanks in advance,

                          walt

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walter@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (02/19/91)

  Does anybody know of a manual page  for the 
  macro, define-macro facility for MIT Scheme ?

      Thanks in advance,

                          walt

 *                  Walter Eder                               *
 *                                                            *
 *    Dept. of VLSI-Design, University Vienna, Austria        *
 *    Phone:  (+43 1) 58801-8157                              *
 *    Fax:    (+43 1) 569697                                  *
 *    Email:  walter@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at                     *

jinx@altdorf.ai.mit.EDU ("Guillermo J. Rozas") (02/20/91)

The 7.1 release documentation includes a file, macros.txt that
describes the current system.

If R4RS is ever published, it will include a new syntactic extension
facility that we will implement in future releases.  We hope to make
both systems compatible so that old code will work, but we may not be
able to do this.

markf@altdorf.ai.mit.EDU ("Mark Friedman") (02/20/91)

>>   Does anybody know of a manual page  for the 
>>   macro, define-macro facility for MIT Scheme ?

I have placed a slightly expanded version of macros.txt on
altdorf.ai.mit.edu:~ftp/archive/scheme-7.1/macros.txt. It describes
DEFINE-MACRO and also has some extra explanatory material.

-Mark