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►Fear of Macros
1 Introduction
2 The plan of attack
3 Transformers
3.1 What is a syntax transformer?
3.2 What’s the input, Kenneth?
3.3 Actually transforming the input
3.4 Compile time vs. run time
4 Pattern matching: syntax-case and syntax-rules
4.1 Patterns and templates
4.1.1 "A pattern variable can’t be used outside of a template"
5 Syntax parameters
6 Robust macros: syntax-parse
7 Other questions
7.1 What’s the point of with-syntax?
7.2 What’s the point of begin-for-syntax?
7.3 What’s the point of racket/ splicing?
8 References/ Acknowledgments
9 Epilogue

Fear of Macros

Greg Hendershott

+Fear of Macros
►Fear of Macros
1 Introduction
2 The plan of attack
3 Transformers
3.1 What is a syntax transformer?
3.2 What’s the input, Kenneth?
3.3 Actually transforming the input
3.4 Compile time vs. run time
4 Pattern matching: syntax-case and syntax-rules
4.1 Patterns and templates
4.1.1 "A pattern variable can’t be used outside of a template"
5 Syntax parameters
6 Robust macros: syntax-parse
7 Other questions
7.1 What’s the point of with-syntax?
7.2 What’s the point of begin-for-syntax?
7.3 What’s the point of racket/ splicing?
8 References/ Acknowledgments
9 Epilogue

Fear of Macros

Greg Hendershott

Copyright (c) 2012 by Greg Hendershott. All rights reserved. -
Last updated 2012-10-26 08:22:42

    1 Introduction

    2 The plan of attack

    3 Transformers

      3.1 What is a syntax transformer?

      3.2 What’s the input, Kenneth?

      3.3 Actually transforming the input

      3.4 Compile time vs. run time

    4 Pattern matching: syntax-case and syntax-rules

      4.1 Patterns and templates

        4.1.1 "A pattern variable can’t be used outside of a template"

    5 Syntax parameters

    6 Robust macros: syntax-parse

    7 Other questions

      7.1 What’s the point of with-syntax?

      7.2 What’s the point of begin-for-syntax?

      7.3 What’s the point of racket/splicing?

    8 References/Acknowledgments

    9 Epilogue

1 Introduction

I learned Racket after 25 years of doing C/C++ imperative programming.

Some psychic whiplash resulted.

"All the parentheses" was actually not a big deal. Instead, the first +

Last updated 2012-10-26 08:58:25

    1 Introduction

    2 The plan of attack

    3 Transformers

      3.1 What is a syntax transformer?

      3.2 What’s the input, Kenneth?

      3.3 Actually transforming the input

      3.4 Compile time vs. run time

    4 Pattern matching: syntax-case and syntax-rules

      4.1 Patterns and templates

        4.1.1 "A pattern variable can’t be used outside of a template"

    5 Syntax parameters

    6 Robust macros: syntax-parse

    7 Other questions

      7.1 What’s the point of with-syntax?

      7.2 What’s the point of begin-for-syntax?

      7.3 What’s the point of racket/splicing?

    8 References/Acknowledgments

    9 Epilogue

1 Introduction

I learned Racket after 25 years of doing C/C++ imperative programming.

Some psychic whiplash resulted.

"All the parentheses" was actually not a big deal. Instead, the first mind warp was functional programming. Before long I wrapped my brain around it, and went on to become comfortable and effective with many other aspects and features of Racket.

But two final frontiers remained: Macros and continuations.

I found that simple macros were easy and understandable, plus there