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From: gunter@netcom11.netcom.com (Mike Gunter)
Subject: Re: long wait
In-Reply-To: pg@das.harvard.edu's message of 22 Sep 1995 02:40:28 -0400
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In article <9509220640.AA00702@hershey.harvard.edu> pg@das.harvard.edu writes:


	 I also think we waited a very long time for (a) the new syntax, 
	 and (b) macros.

   And in fact these two waits were probably related.  When your source 
   code is lists, it is very clear what macros do: they're just functions 
   that return lists.

It's not so clear to me.  In which environment are these functions
evaluated?

Do you believe the Scheme macro design stems from lack of clarity?

	mike gunter




