Re: [Chicken-users] what is "[synax]"?

[Graham Fawcett]

On Nov 3, 2007 1:40 PM, naruto canada <address@hidden> wrote:

hi

I'm trying to read the foreign code document, what is "[syntax]" that
appears everywhere?
[syntax] (foreign-code STRING ...)

Using this case as an example, there is no procedure called "foreign-code".  Rather there is a macro called foreign-code that, when evaluated, expands into some other form. In general, macros can be viewed as a way of defining new syntax for the language.

Does that help?

G