Expansion-Passing Style: A General Macro Mechanism

@article{citeulike:4634, abstract = {The traditional Lisp macro expansion facility inhibits several important forms of expansion control. These include selective expansion of subexpressions, expansion of subexpressions using modified expansion functions, and expansion of application and variable expressions. Furthermore, the expansion algorithm must treat every special form as a separate case. The result is limited expressive power and poor modularity. We propose an alternative facility that avoids these problems, using a...}, author = {Dybvig, Kent K. and Friedman, Daniel P. and Haynes, Christopher T. }, citeulike-article-id = {4634}, comment = {26}, journal = {Lisp and Symbolic Computation: An International Journal}, number = {1}, pages = {53--76}, posted-at = {2007-12-13 01:18:54}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}, title = {Expansion-Passing Style: A General Macro Mechanism}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/dybvig88expansionpassing.html}, volume = {1}, year = {1988} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4634 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4634 TI - Expansion-Passing Style: A General Macro Mechanism JF - Lisp and Symbolic Computation: An International Journal VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 53 EP - 76 PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers N2 - The traditional Lisp macro expansion facility inhibits several important forms of expansion control. These include selective expansion of subexpressions, expansion of subexpressions using modified expansion functions, and expansion of application and variable expressions. Furthermore, the expansion algorithm must treat every special form as a separate case. The result is limited expressive power and poor modularity. We propose an alternative facility that avoids these problems, using a... N1 - 26 AU - Dybvig, Kent AU - Friedman, Daniel AU - Haynes, Christopher PY - 1988/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/dybvig88expansionpassing.html ER -