<div dir="ltr">Right, I saw that in the docs. I was more curious as to why that was the route chosen: whether there were historical reasons, coming from Tiny Scheme, or it's just the approach that you like better, or S7 predates syntax-rules, and so on. But no worries if that's not something you have time or inclination to get into.<div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>iain</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:42 AM <<a href="mailto:bil@ccrma.stanford.edu">bil@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">You can write hygienic macros with define-macro because<br>
s7 has first-class environments (and gensym) (see s7.html<br>
under define-macro), so there's no need for syntax-rules.<br>
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