Andrew Gwozdziewycz on 4 Feb 2008 08:48:13 -0800


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Re: good example of macros?

  • From: "Andrew Gwozdziewycz" <apgwoz@gmail.com>
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  • Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:48:02 -0500
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On Feb 4, 2008 9:19 AM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of the things I've been struggling with in creating the
> presentation is how to show 'the power of lisp' - which I think boils
> down to abstraction, DSLs and language building.
>

> My plan was to show cut as an interactive session in emacs/slime/lisp
> and talk through it in action rather than just point at it on one of
> the slides:
>
>   http://asymmetrical-view.com/lisp-presentation/cut.lisp
>
> What do you think?
>
> I want to make sure I cover things that the group will find useful
> (beyond "here's where to download lisp").

Great idea.

One set of macros that has always interested me was the automata
example in this paper:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-automata-macros/paper.pdf
by Shriram Krishnamurthi.

It really shows the power of what can be done. cut, while a great
macro and a way to save some keystrokes really doesn't do macros
justice.

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