Re: [Chicken-users] Stupid backquote/unquote question

[John Cowan]

Hans Nowak scripsit:

> ...and I understand *why* they don't work, but I can't figure out how to 
> take s and transform it into (foo bar 42).  Maybe I'm stupid, but I just 
> don't see it. Is it possible?  Or do I need to do something entirely 
>  different?

As has been pointed out, you can use eval, but you can also use your
own quasiquote expander.  Attached is a copy of Alan Bawden's, which is
used in the syntax-case egg.    The interface is just (qq-expand sexpr);
the other functions are private helpers.  Someone should eggify this,
I guess.)

Alan's code has an extension over R5RS: if you pass it `(+ (unquote
1 2 3) 4) it will return (+ 1 2 3 4) rather than reporting an error
or just throwing away the "2 3" part, as Chicken's native quasiquote
expander does.  You can see this happen by testing the expression when
running csi with and without syntax-case.

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