Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Drop now-unnecessary exports from the "chicken.export" module

[John Cowan]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

I can imagine those macros going into (chicken base) and/or some
other modules, but a (chicken syntax) module with them in it makes
sense too.  Then we could just rename (chicken syntax) on the
c-l-r page to (chicken expand) and keep expand.scm as-is.

That sounds right to me.  The R7RS Yellow Edition (next after the current Orange Edition) will focus on syntax, and I plan to propose that all the macros added to the large language be put in a single (scheme syntax) library, possibly including SRFIs 2, 8, 17, 26, 31 ....  Keeping the macro expansion machinery in (chicken expand) makes sense to me as well.

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