Is there a set of exercises I can solve to grok how to use racket macros well?

https://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/\|https://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/ is a good starting point, though I recommend syntax/parse after that

umm I gave it a quick glance, I couldn’t find any exercises :confused: For reference, I’ve gone through the plai and racket guide chapters on macros, I just need a concrete set of problems that’ll help me get a hang of how to use macros :slightly_smiling_face:

Check https://soegaard.github.io/mythical-macros/\|https://soegaard.github.io/mythical-macros/

And http://rmculpepper.github.io/malr/basic.html\|http://rmculpepper.github.io/malr/basic.html

I’m not sure about exercises. beautiful racket has a bit of macro writing, too, though it’s a slightly different interface. I recommend looking for opportunities to write macros in your code (syntactic abstraction when functional abstraction isn’t enough; mini DSLs; etc.) and treat those as “exercises”

Racket Summer School also has several macro exercises.

• https://school.racket-lang.org/2019/plan/mon-aft-lab.html • https://school.racket-lang.org/2019/plan/tue-aft-lab.html • https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2018/plan/mon-mor-lab.html • https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2018/plan/mon-aft-lab.html • …

A worthwhile exercise is to implement existing constructs using simpler ones. Such as: • implement cond in terms of if • implement and and or • implement let* For inspiration: https://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-10.html#%_sec_7.3

https://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax-parse-example/index.html\|https://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax-parse-example/index.html is a another valuable resource for learning macros

Except that don’t look at how Racket actually implements these macros :laughing: . The context is different.