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Sometimes complex Racket macros need a way for their syntax to be extended. The Racket match form is an example, new patterns can be created for match using define-match-expander. This racket package provides a form for defining a macro with the ability to define expanders for the macro. Consider this contrived example:
(define-syntax call-each
(define-syntax call-each
(syntax-parser
[(_ f (expr ...))
#'(begin (f expr) ...)]))
(call-each displayln (1 2 3))
(call-each displayln (1 2 3))
If a user of this macro wished for a way to specify a range of numbers as the arguments, the user must define their own version of call-each with support for ranges that expands to using the original call-each. However, this racket package provides a form, define-syntax-with-expanders:
(define-syntax-with-expanders call-each
(define-syntax-with-expanders call-each
(syntax-parser
[(_ f (expr ...))
#'(begin (f expr) ... )]))
(define-call-each-expander foo
(define-call-each-expander foo
(syntax-parser
[(_ low:number high:number)
#`(#,@(range (syntax-e #'low) (syntax-e #'high)))]))
(call-each displayln (foo 1 4))
(call-each displayln (foo 1 4))
The define-syntax-with-expanders form creates a define-call-each-expander form, which defines syntax transformers that are only used inside the body of a call-each form and expand before call-each does.