[philly-lambda] Re: Good references for syntax-case?

["David Esterkin" <desterkin@chariotsolutions.com>]

TSPL is the best reference for syntax-case I have found. Shriram Krishnamurthi's Programming Languages: Application
 and Interpretation has a couple of good chapters with examples of using syntax-rules and syntax-case:

The book is available from:  
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-04-26/

On 8/23/07, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apgwoz@gmail.com> wrote:

On Aug 22, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Kyle R. Burton wrote:

I've found JRM's primer [1] on syntax-rules to be mind-expanding, but

I was wondering if anyone had any good references for syntax-case.

I'm asking because something went across p.r.c today asking about the

differences between CL and Scheme's macro systems and syntax-case came

up a lot in the comments/discussion.

You might try out _The Scheme Programming Language_ chapter freely

available here http://scheme.com/tspl3/syntax.html#./syntax:h3

It's from R. Kent Dyvbig, who I *think* is the original author (or one of) of syntax-case.

It's not as enlightening as JRM's primer on syntax-rules, but if you now are

comfortable with syntax-rules, syntax-case does nothing more than allow you to

break hygiene. The pattern language is still the same. The only thing to really

learn are the techniques used to create the unhygienic portions of your macro. I

admittedly haven't done much with syntax-case, so I may be off a bit.

Good Luck

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Andrew Gwozdziewycz

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