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

[Hans Nowak]

Alex Shinn wrote:

> quasiquote is syntax - it happens at compile-time, so to
> apply it to dynamic data at runtime you need to call EVAL:

Thanks, I understand it now.  I keep thinking of macros as first-class, when 
they're not. :-(

(Which leads me to wonder, *are* there Lisps/Schemes that have first-class 
macros?  Where you can, for example, pass a macro as an argument to map, the way 
you can do with a function?)

I guess I'll have to use eval, but I don't think it's going to work if I use 
this kind of s-expr inside a function?  Like

  (define (blah x)
    (sasm (jmp ,x)))

(where SASM is the name of the macro that handles this kind of s-expressions).

--Hans