Re: define-syntax and Clinger's implementation

["Ji-Yong D. Chung" <virtualcyber@erols.com>]

    Sorry about that!  I was being inaccurate and
careless when I wrote "... Clinger who happens to be one of the
original authors of papers on the hygienic macros."

    I did not mean to discredit your original
authorship of the intellectual work (Kohlbecker, Friedman,
Fellieisen, and Duba "Hygienic macro expansion").
or your contributions to scheme community.

    Again, my apologies.

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias@cs.rice.edu>
To: <virtualcyber@erols.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: define-syntax and Clinger's implementation


>
>    From: "Ji-Yong D. Chung" <virtualcyber@erols.com>
>    Cc: <plt-scheme@fast.cs.utah.edu>
>    Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 05:45:36 -0500
>
>> While the current implementation of define-syntax in MzScheme seems
>>    to be good for its intended use, perhaps you'd consider incorporating
>>    Bigloo's define-syntax module into MzScheme (I do not think license
>>    restriction is too bad).  Its define-syntax system was written by
>>    William Clinger who happens to be one of the original authors of
papers
>>    on the hygienic macros)

> The term "hygenic" was coined by myself in 1986 as one of four authors
(and
> the main writer) of the paper 'Hygienic Macros' (LFP 1986). I was also
> Matthew's PhD advisor :-) and got the PLT effort started.
>
> But of course this is a non-technical remark. -- Matthias
>