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

[Elf]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> 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.

so, like, what lambda internals do within a program, or what internal
let forms do, or like what happens to arguments before being passed to
procedures, or ....


-elf :)