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

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:15:31AM -0500, Patrick Li wrote:
> Thanks for the help Felix!
> 
> There's one more question I stumbled upon actually. Do you know of some way
> I can tell if a symbol *actually* refers to lambda or let?
> 
> eg. after some macro expansions, a form might look like (lambda89 (x y) body
> ...)
> where lambda89 is equivalent to lambda.

After full expansion, you should get ##core#lambda, which is the "core"
lambda.

To determine whether a renamed symbol like lambda89 refers to a macro,
you need to look it up in the syntax environment you've built up till
the point where you encounter it.

Cheers,
Peter
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