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Re: Document formatting in Scheme
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> From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>
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> Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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> > For the above, you could define macros (syntax-case)
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> This isn't what I meant. SYNTAX-CASE defines general-purpose
> transformers. It just so happens that you can use these functions in
> a macro context. But you can also use them as a pattern-matching
> primitive in the midst of any program.
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> Shriram
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Agreed. I didn't think you meant that. -- Matthias