comparative macrology

[jopython]

Just wanted to point someone mentioned and compared newlisp macros in his blog.



http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2014/09/15/comparative-macrology/">//http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2014/09/15/comparative-macrology/

[TedWalther]

Thank you jopython, fascinating article.

[Lutz]

The article doesn't mention that newLISP now does have native expansion macros:



http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#macro">http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlis ... html#macro">http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#macro



... and should compare to those, not to fexprs with define-macro.



It also should mention that newLISP has mechanisms to avoid variable capture in fexprs:



http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#scoping">http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlis ... ml#scoping">http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#scoping

and here:

http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Differences_to_Other_LISPs">http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=D ... ther_LISPs">http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Differences_to_Other_LISPs