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On 6/24/06, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The only place (... ...) is needed is in macro-defining macros, which
aren't too common. A search through the PLT code base for (... ...)
versus a search for ... gives a good impression of how uncommon it is.
In my opinion it would therefore be annoying to the specify the ellipsis
in the "boiler plate" every time I need to define a standard macro.
Furthermore with-syntax lets you choose your own ellipsis, when
you need to define a macro-defining macro:
(with-syntax ((::: #'(... ...))
<use ::: here>)
I think it's a little nicer to write something like
(define-syntax syntax-case
(syntax-case-macro
(lambda (stx)
(parametrized-syntax-case stx *** ()
((syntax-case name vars body ***)
#`(parametrized-syntax-case #,(datum->syntax stx '...)
vars body ***))))))
Disclaimer: I don't know syntax-case well enough to be certain of the
above code, but I think it should be about right.
David Feuer