Scheme - Re: define-syntax + syntax-case <-> define-macro + gensym

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Re: define-syntax + syntax-case <-> define-macro + gensym

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2004-03-27, 12:24 am

dave_a_fisher@yahoo.com (David Fisher) wrote in message
>
> Let S be the following set of primitives:
> DEFINE-SYNTAX + SYNTAX-CASE + LET-SYNTAX + LETREC-SYNTAX
> ...
> And since the length of the simplest program is [related to] the
> Kolmogorov complexity of its output, what outrageous claims can be
> made here?

By reducing the length of simple programs, DEFINE-MACRO is (related to)
a way to bypass the Kolmogorov complexity barrier and encode the entire
OED in only three bytes. </outrage>

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