Fear of Macros

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Last updated 2013-09-28T13:57:52
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Contents:

    1 Preface

    2 Our plan of attack

    3 Transform!

      3.1 What is a syntax transformer?

      3.2 What’s the input?

      3.3 Actually transforming the input

      3.4 Compile time vs. run time

      3.5 begin-for-syntax

    4 Pattern matching: syntax-case and syntax-rules

      4.1 Pattern variable vs. template—fight!

        4.1.1 with-syntax

        4.1.2 with-syntax*

        4.1.3 format-id

        4.1.4 Another example

      4.2 Making our own struct

      4.3 Using dot notation for nested hash lookups

    5 Syntax parameters

    6 What’s the point of splicing-let?

    7 Robust macros: syntax-parse

      7.1 Error-handling strategies for functions

      7.2 Error-handling strategies for macros

      7.3 Using syntax/parse

    8 References and Acknowledgments

    9 Epilogue