Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Boot, Virtual Machine

[Stephen Wilson]

Greetings all,

Its been a while since I posted to the list, The following has me
curious.

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 22 May 2007, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> | Using Boot means that we lose the macro capability of lisp,
> 
> No, you don't.  You can define macros at Boot level.  They get 
> translated as macros at Lisp level.  It looks to me that most of your
> objections stem from insufficient familairity with Boot than informed
> assessment. 

Gaby. Could you, please, give an informative example of how Boot
macros translate into Lisp?  Perhaps an interesting example of how a
Lisp macro could be translated into Boot?  Unfortunately, I do not
understand Boot particularly well.  In my readings of the extant Boot
code I have not noticed heavy use of macros.  However, I do understand
Lisp.

> | a facility
> | I use heavily and refuse to give up. If you don't understand the full
> | power of lisp macros you can't understand the implications of that loss.
> 
> It looks to me that you don't understand the full power of Boot.

My hope is that this means the equivalence of the two macro systems
is easy to demonstrate.


Sincerely,
Steve