Hi, I have a couple macros which produce very similar syntaxes, with some changes. I would like to factor out parts of those templates to reduce code duplication. Essentially, I would like to do something like this: (define-for-syntax (helper stx-fragment) #'(list stx-fragment)) (define-synta…

Using quasi-syntax is probably what you are looking for. #lang racket (require (for-syntax syntax/parse)) (define-for-syntax (helper stx-fragment) #`(list #,@stx-fragment)) (define-syntax main-macro (syntax-parser [(_ stuff ...) (helper #'(stuff ...))])) (main-macro 'a 'b 'c 'd)

Factor out parts of syntax templates

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dstorrs March 15, 2022, 3:33pm 3

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for or not, but have you seen define-template-metafunction from 1.11 Experimental ? I make heavy use of it in struct-plus-plus if you want to see real-word examples.

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Factor out parts of syntax templates

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