Re: [ANN] metalua 0.4

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Fabien wrote:
>
> Except for one point: he seems to consider that lack of outside macro
> hygiene is acceptable in a Lisp-1, and I find it even filthier than being a
> Lisp-2. It really puzzles me.

Yes, I think you'll be disappointed if you expect Arc to provide a
solution to macro hygiene.

Why is scheme-style hygiene not suitable for you?

I recently saved the following links for later reading...
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dherman/research/papers/esop08-hygiene.pdf
http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf

Tony.
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