Re: Please explain different macros

[Rob Browning]

Michael Livshin <address@hidden> writes:

> it's tricky.
> 
> the R5RS macros are implemented through the portable syntax-case
> implementation.  syntax-case pre-processes the Scheme source before
> it gets to the eval -- so it's kind of slow, and it processes all
> the code, even though your particular program may not excersize all
> the code it loads.

But just to be clear, this happens at load time, not execution time,
right?

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930