The accepted answer is an excellent post. In it is this gem: > Scheme's syntax-case is far more subtle and complicated than any one thing in Lisp. While synta

The accepted answer is an excellent post. In it is this gem: > Scheme's syntax-case is far more subtle and complicated than any one thing in Lisp. While syntax-case seems complicated at first because it involves a similar mind-bending to that first time when you learned about lambda, it is my number one power tool that keeps me coming back to scheme (the other being a small 'surface area' that I can keep in my head without having to keep skipping between library documentation and code).