On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Fabien wrote: > > Except for one point: he seems to consider that lack of outside macro > hygiene is acceptable in a Lisp-1, and I find it even filthier than being a > Lisp-2. It really puzzles me. Yes, I think you'll be disappointed if you expect Arc to provide a solution to macro hygiene. Why is scheme-style hygiene not suitable for you? I recently saved the following links for later reading... http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dherman/research/papers/esop08-hygiene.pdf http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ BAILEY: WEST VIOLENT STORM 11 BACKING SOUTHWEST THEN NORTHEAST 5 OR 6. HIGH OR VERY HIGH, BECOMING VERY ROUGH LATER. OCCASIONAL RAIN. POOR BECOMING MODERATE OR GOOD.