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Scheme Macro Guides For A Myriad of Neurological and Emotional Afflictions

Scheme macros seem to fascinate and attract unhinged people from across the globe, resulting in a series of guides dedicated to the craft of macros for a wide range of brain afflications.

Some examples follow and may be updated in the future.

An Advanced Syntax-Rules Primer for the Mildly Insane by Al Petrofsky:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040930194642/https://petrofsky.org/src/primer.txt

Various comp.lang.scheme discussions:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.scheme/c/hsM4g33joCA/m/GbZ1F-HGbOsJ

mnieper's Extending a Language

The web page:

https://mnieper.github.io/scheme-macros/README.html

and the source repository:

https://github.com/mnieper/scheme-macros

JRM's Syntax-rules Primer for the Merely Eccentric

A cleaned up version by the talented Zipheir:

https://www.sigwinch.xyz/misc/jrms_syntax-rules_primer.txt

Some other(?) versions:

https://hipster.home.xs4all.nl/lib/scheme/gauche/define-syntax-primer.txt

If you dislike beautifully rendered text files and prefer using uncomfortable PDF files that can never quite fit on a screen or on an e-ink portable device, and do not work well with text-to-speech engines:

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/syntax-rules.pdf

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