Re: [Chicken-users] Implementing a macroexpand-all

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 02:46:58PM -0500, Patrick Li wrote:
> 
> The "when" should not be macroexpanded because it is a local binding
> introduced by the let form. In that context, it is actually *not* a macro.
> 
> Does anyone know which forms introduce new bindings? How can I check this
> up?

I'm afraid to really do this properly you'd need to implement your own
macro-expander.  You need to do all sorts of bookkeeping to get your
syntactic environments straight.  The macro-expander needs to know about
core forms like LET and extend the environment accordingly when those are
used.  See expand.scm in Chicken core (hairy!), or alexpander in the
Chicken 3 egg repo (cleaner, but still rather tricky) for an example of
such things.

Cheers,
Peter
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