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

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:04:26PM -0700, Elf wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> Alex Shinn scripsit:
>>
>>> DEFINE-MACRO is just EVAL.  Syntactic closures is just EVAL with
>>> the two extra env parameters, [...].
>>
>> And as I believe I heard someone say on #scheme the other day, if
>> your program involves EVAL, it's probably broken.  Even if the
>> EVAL is hidden behind something else.
>>
>
> This sentence makes no sense to me, as this would imply that all
> programs are always broken.

eval running within the program, not the eval being used to run the
program.

-Robin

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