Re: Please explain different macros

[Michael Livshin]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> But procedure->* must be in the reference manual, for completeness.

I'm not so sure about that, actually.

I'd be quite surprised to hear about any user who actually needed the
non-memoizing macro variants in his work.

this is not to say that these things shouldn't be documented at all --
of course they should.  in the developer documentation (wherever that
is supposed to be) or something like that, but IMHO *not* in the user
documentation.

> I prefer define-syntax myself, but I don't have any
> performance-critical Guile applications to worry about.

scripts, presumably?  macro expansion speed (or lack thereof) should
only affect the load time, after all.

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