Re: [Chicken-users] Bug report: low-level macros vs. variables in csi

[John Cowan]

Felix Winkelmann scripsit:

> Macros are not first class, like procedures. Low-level macros
> in general do not actually fit that well into Scheme's semantics.

Are you saying (or rather implying) that it's too expensive to insert a
check for low-level macro names in funky places into eval?  It certainly
sounds straightforward to me.

> This situation is slightly less problematic in Lisp-2's (which
> still has the same problem). 

In effect, native Chicken without an expander is partly a Lisp-2.

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