On 2011-01-22, at 17:04, Vincent Manis wrote:
> If I have syntax-case or some other macro system, I can write a macro
>
>  (in-floating-point
>    (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt discriminant)) (* 2.0 a)))
>
> that does the renaming inside the form. I would argue that this is clearer, and allows flonum arithmetic to coexist in the same piece of code with fixnum or generic arithmetic. It definitely beats renaming.

What was I thinking? syntax-rules is good enough.

-- vincent
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