Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-users] Spiffy & OpenSSL in compiled code

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 07:30:54PM +0200, Felix wrote:
> Since I have the situation of requiring the extended syntax bindings
> myself sometimes (and always forget about this), I wonder if it would
> be desirable to load it by default.  That would mean "eval" always has
> access to the non-standard syntactic bindings usually available in
> chicken. The downside is the extra time needed for loading and
> initializing "chicken-syntax", including the amount of runtime storage
> needed (I haven't measured this, though).  An additional point in
> favor is that new users are likely not able to figure out the
> "(require 'chicken-syntax)" which is needed to evaluate chicken code.

I, for one, think this would be a useful change.

Cheers,
Peter
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