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Thanks Dave, high praise! I was inspired after seeing you all take over the declarative & minimalist programming room at FOSDEM this year.

If you thought this was cool, wait until you see what I ended up using it for: https://deosjr.github.io/dynamicland/ I personally think this is much cooler :) But it needs some more explaining before I can broadly share, I think.

Now that I have you here, a question: am I correct in thinking that in Hoot, eval in the browser does not currently work with macros?



I'm glad you felt inspired! This Dynamicland implementation looks awesome. I look forward to this being shared to a wider audience. :)

Regarding your question, as of Hoot 0.6.1 we now have a psyntax-based macro expander integrated with eval so you can use syntax-rules and syntax-case. There are still rough edges, though. I'm currently focused on some non-Hoot tasks but the next Hoot priority is to implement a Guile-like REPL and really kick the tires on the interpreter before the 0.7.0 release.




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