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On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:56:54 -0800 (PST)
"co...@ccil.org" <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> Time to vote on the Yellow Edition of R7RS-large. This is concerned
> with both macro systems and particular macros. Voting on it is open
> until the end of January. Please vote!
>
> You can reach the voting form at
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FEovNGbLYWz2yd6-UrbSCjFwAQ6fynrStLQyyC6YYDE/edit>.
> You don't need a Google account. Let me know at <cowan@ccil.org> if
> anything goes wrong.

Am I right that there is no proposal for implicit renaming macros? (I
saw the reference to explicit renaming macros in the questions.) Given
that they are implemented in chicken and seem to work well, and are the
main competition to syntax-case, that seems disappointing.

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 4:08:15 PM UTC-5, Chris Vine wrote:

> Am I right that there is no proposal for implicit renaming macros? (I
> saw the reference to explicit renaming macros in the questions.) Given
> that they are implemented in chicken and seem to work well, and are the
> main competition to syntax-case, that seems disappointing.

The only Schemes I know of that support implicit renaming are Chicken and Picrin. I don't think the Scheme community as a whole has enough experience with IR to judge its merits. The Chicken implementation of IR also takes O(n^2) time. So no, I don't think implicit renaming is the *main* competition to syntax-case.

The same applies to syntactic closures: they are available only in MIT, Chibi, and Picrin, although they have been around much longer.

See <https://docs.scheme.org/surveys/syntax-definitions> for more details on who supports what.

Chris Vine schrieb am Sonntag, 14. November 2021 um 22:08:15 UTC+1:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:56:54 -0800 (PST)
> "co...@ccil.org" <co...@ccil.org> wrote:
> > Time to vote on the Yellow Edition of R7RS-large. This is concerned
> > with both macro systems and particular macros. Voting on it is open
> > until the end of January. Please vote!
> >
> > You can reach the voting form at
> > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FEovNGbLYWz2yd6-UrbSCjFwAQ6fynrStLQyyC6YYDE/edit>.
> > You don't need a Google account. Let me know at <co...@ccil.org> if
> > anything goes wrong.
> Am I right that there is no proposal for implicit renaming macros? (I
> saw the reference to explicit renaming macros in the questions.) Given
> that they are implemented in chicken and seem to work well, and are the
> main competition to syntax-case, that seems disappointing.

If you need "implicit renaming" use syntax-case. It's faster, more expressive, and safer to use than Chicken's IR macros. From a user's point of view, I can't see a reason not to choose syntax-case when compared to Chicken's IR.

ER macros don't suffer from the quadratic complexity of IR but suffer from inconvenience (and lack of expressivity, etc.), so are also not a substitute for syntax-case.