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Re: Anaphoric macros like when-let
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: Anaphoric macros like when-let |
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Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:24:30 -0400 |
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Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:
> Is there a Scheme or Guile equivalent to Emacs Lisp's `when-let' ?
I have nothing to add to Matt and Kyle's answers, except to mention that
'when-let' is not actually an anaphoric macro. Anaphoric macros are
those that introduce a binding that is not named by the user, e.g. 'it',
which is called an anaphor. For more, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro
Mark