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[Chicken-hackers] require, require-extension-for-syntax, and the initial
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Peter Bex |
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[Chicken-hackers] require, require-extension-for-syntax, and the initial macro environment |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:55:51 +0100 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
Hi all,
I was just moving things around in the CHICKEN 5 manual, and ran
into "require-extension-for-syntax". I thought we had removed
it and require-extension, but apparently both are part of the
(chicken base) module.
I'm not sure why we still need these (probably because require-extension
is a SRFI (55)?). In any case, shouldn't require-extension-for-syntax
be moved to (chicken syntax) for consistency? We have begin-for-syntax
and define-for-syntax in there, as well as import-for-syntax. It only
makes sense to have require-for-syntax in there as well.
But honestly, I think it's better to just drop require-extension-for-syntax
and perhaps even require-extension.
One more question: Where should we document "the initial (nameless) macro
environment"? For example, cond-expand and module and such need a place
to be documented too, and they're strictly speaking not part of a module
(but it's weird to have to look them up somewhere completely different).
OK, one more question and then I'll stop :)
What about this note in expand.som:
;; TODO: Eventually, cond-expand should move to the
;; (chicken base) module to match r7rs. Keeping it in the initial env
;; makes it a whole lot easier to write portable CHICKEN 4 & 5 code.
Cheers,
Peter
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