Re: [Chicken-users] Syntax of case expressions

[Matt Gushee]

Shawn W. wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Matt Gushee wrote:

> > I have just written a 'string-case' macro--it is supposed to behave 
> > just like case, except that it uses string=? in place of eqv? as its 
> > equality predicate.
>
> Insert obligatory plug for my extended-cond egg, which has a version of 
> case that takes an arbitrary predicate. There's also a generalized-case 
> egg that's very similar (Mine also implements guard clauses from srfi-87)

Those sound good. I was actually not trying to write a library for 
public consumption--I'm mainly just trying to learn how to write macros, 
and perhaps provide an example for others learning macros.

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