From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T02:37:32+09:00
Subject: Re: RLisp - Lisp naturally embedded in Ruby

"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <tomasz.wegrzanowski@gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/25/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Personally, I'd prefer setf.
>
> Is setf used like that in any Lisp ?

Does Common Lisp count? :)

>> Your implementation of scope gives me a headache. ;-) Is it newLisp
>> inspired?
>
> I didn't even know newLisp, it's more Perl4-inspired :-)
> And right now it doesn't work quite like I'd like it to, I plan to fix it.

*g*

>> BTW, did you consider adding hygienic macros?
>
> I couldn't understand them from the standard, and Paul Graham
> keeps saying that they're horrible, so I wasn't very inclined to try :-)
>
> Can you show some examples where they are better ?

Have a look at this:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jhbrown/scheme/macroslides04.pdf

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