From: tomas@fabula.de
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: memoization and error messages
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:57:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021124125745.GA31397@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10211240903440.27851-100000@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:43:15AM +0100, Dirk Herrmann wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> since yesterday I have made some progress with the memoizer, I just feel
> like showing you :-))) I will show you some transcripts of how my
> modified version of guile works, with some explanations. The focus of
> this mail is on error messages for syntax errors. Part of this mail is
> for showing you things that already work (and how they work), some parts
> indicate open points. In general, the handling of syntax errors is not
> perfect yet, but its a start.
>
>
> 1) Syntactic keywords are no longer accepted as expressions. Formerly,
> guile would have accepted the following:
> guile> define
> #<macro 4020ada0>
> But now, the correct position of syntactic keywords is checked by the
> memoizer:
> guile> define
> ERROR: In procedure memoization:
> ERROR: Misplaced syntactic keyword define.
> ABORT: (syntax-error)
Hrm. Here's the usual whiner. Feel free to ignore me if I get onto
your nerves [1] ;-)
That means that macros aren't anymore `first class objects'? What
consequences does this have for meta-programming?
------
[1] No, I do acknowledge that *you* are doing the work and I'm just
sitting back and complaining. I wouldn't take any offense if
you prefer to do more real work instead of taking the time to
answer to my ramblings.
Thanks
-- tomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-24 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-24 10:43 memoization and error messages Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-24 12:57 ` tomas [this message]
2002-11-24 16:49 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-24 22:25 ` Daniel Skarda
2002-11-28 18:02 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-12-02 20:45 ` Daniel Skarda
2002-12-03 0:09 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-11-26 10:42 ` tomas
2002-11-28 19:34 ` Neil Jerram
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