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Re: PEG Parser


From: Noah Lavine
Subject: Re: PEG Parser
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:37:55 -0500

Hello all,

Sorry for the late notice, but I'm about halfway through porting
peg.scm to use hygienic macros, so if anyone else was thinking of
doing it, you might want to save your effort for something else. Or
email me and I'll send you what I have.

I hope no one else has already started.

Noah

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat 29 Jan 2011 05:15, Michael Lucy <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Also, macros are notoriously difficult to debug, especially when
>> they're generating several hundred lines of code that compiles fine
>> but mysteriously produces the wrong result after a seemingly trivial
>> change.  So porting them from list generation to syntax generation
>> turned out to be harder in practice than I had thought it would be.
>
> Hey no worries, you got the thing working in the first place.  We'll see
> about porting it to use hygienic expansion :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
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