Subject: Re: Understanding lispishness
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 13 Jan 2001 11:45:13 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <93pf49$op6a3$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Actually, I invented (but never published) and then later someone else
| (Alan Bawden?) re-invented a paradigm for doing defmacro-style macros in
| Scheme in a way that was both hygeinic and powerful. ... I believe the
| competing theory [competing with Kohlbecker/syntax-rules] was called
| "syntactic closures", btw.
+---------------

Are you thinking of Chris Hanson maybe? If so, there's an implementation
in SLIB (incl. documentation and comparison/contrast with syntax-rules):

    <URL:http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/slib_2.html#SEC23>


-Rob

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