Re: Perl, English, syntax for Scheme and shells (was Re: scsh in scm ...)

["T. Kurt Bond" <tkb@wvlink.mpl.com>]

Paul Wilson wrote:

> This is the kind of thing the RScheme lexically-scoped syntactic extension
> facility is designed for.  Instead of macroexpanding as a conceptually
> separate pass, it's integrated right into the compiler in a clean way.
> The normal SICP-style compile-time environments are extended to handle
> the funny scoping issues that come up when you write "hygeinic macros",
> rather than requiring the macroexpander to do a bunch of the same scope
> resolution work that the compiler already does.  (E.g., to notice that
> lambda does funny things to the meaning of identifiers.)

Is there anywhere one could find out more about RScheme's syntactic extension 
facility?
-- 
T. Kurt Bond, tkb@wvlink.mpl.com