Re: [Chicken-users] macro systems and chicken (long)

[John Cowan]

Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:

> Syntax-rules is handy for simple stuff, but I'd hate for it to be the
> only macro system I had - I like to think of it as a shorthand for a
> reasonably common case, TBH. 

I think quite otherwise: I would never write a macro in any system other
than syntax-rules -- all other macro systems strike me as standing on
a foundation of quicksand.

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