macro returning more than one form

[Kenneth Tilton]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Paul Tarvydas <paultarvydas at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> @All, thanks for the interesting discussion.  Certainly gives me
>> something to chew on.
>>
>> Re-reading the responses, I see that, while I did sort-of say it, I
>> didn't emphasize the point of this:
>>
>> I have a PEG-syntax parser written in esrap.
>>
>> I am binding at least two such parsers as reader-macros (not the normal
>> kind of macro).
>>
>
> I always thought that reader macros should be called a different name,
> because they are not macros. Yes, they produce code; but that's the only
> point they have in common with macros.
>

Given that that is all that macros do, methinks that a rather comprehensive
commonality.

Even a keyboard macro has no job other than to take a key chord and produce
key strokes,

-hp

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Kenneth Tilton
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