[PRL] A new LISP book

Philippe Meunier meunier at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Sep 25 00:49:20 EDT 2009


Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> It is so easy to tell now whether people understand basic ideas or not. 
> Anyone who says stuff like this, has never penetrated basic macros, not 
> to speak of our syntax system.

Read his "clarifications" web page on the book's web site:
http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/clarifications

The "Chapter 3" he's talking about is actually available online:
http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap3.html
Search for the word "hygienic" in that page.  There's only two
(non-consecutive) paragraphs containing that word.  It seems clear to
me that the author only knows about syntax-rule, not syntax-case.

Philippe





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