Expansion-Passing Style: A General Macro Mechanism

by: Kent K Dybvig, Daniel P Friedman, Christopher T Haynes

Lisp and Symbolic Computation: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1. (1988), pp. 53-76.

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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...

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