Arrow notation, etc.

[Dylan Thurston]

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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:39:09PM +0100, Keith Wansbrough wrote:
> Dylan writes:
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> > Incidentally, it seems to me that this is one case where a Lisp-like
> > macro facility might be useful.  With Haskell, it is impossible to
> > play with bindings, while presumably you can do this with good Lisp
> > macro systems.
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> Yes, this is one thing you can do with good macro systems as are found in=
 Lisp and Dylan (the language, not the person!).  See the references in my
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> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~kw217/research/paper-abstracts.html#Wansbrough99=
:Macros
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> Wansbrough, 1999.  Macros and Preprocessing in Haskell
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> especially section 8.

Very good.  Is there a concrete proposal for such macros?  I think the
arrow notation would be a harder test case than any of the existing
syntactic sugar; I'd be curious to see what it looked like.  (And is
there support for adding these macros to Haskell?)

> Hygiene is a key concept here; that variables bound in a macro
> should not clash with other variables in the program (unless this is
> explicitly required).

Off to read some Dylan manuals,
	Dylan

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