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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>,
	Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>,  Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: "guile-devel@gnu.org" <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [BUG] Eval sets incorrect runtime metainformation
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 11:06:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240701110649.i96m2C0051zp23j0196oPb@laurent.telenet-ops.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <718e88a7-36b8-4e72-84b6-5156f7d75896@philipmcgrath.com>

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>I hadn't realized that other languages in Guile might compile to Tree-IL 
directly instead of generating syntax objects. Is that common and/or 
encouraged?

I haven’t really checked, but probably? For anything that’s not Schemy in its macros, it strips a pointless layer of abstraction, and Tree-IL is straightforward to work with.

>It seems like it would require the new language's compiler 
to do a lot of work that could otherwise be delegated to Guile, and it 
would make it difficult to implement parts of the new language using macros.

I don’t see what this lot of extra work this would be (unless the language has macros that are Schemy). But yes, if implementing terms in macros, it seems pretty inevitable to use syntax objects, in which case I suppose you might compile to Scheme instead of Tree-IL.

For the mentioned IDE, it wouldn’t really matter what’s happening precisely, as long are there is a path from ‘language -> Tree-Il’.

Best regards,
Maxime Devos.

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-01  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-25 15:07 [BUG] Eval sets incorrect runtime metainformation Andrew Tropin
2024-06-26  9:24 ` Andy Wingo
2024-06-26  9:36   ` Maxime Devos
2024-06-26 11:41     ` Andrew Tropin
2024-06-26 22:06       ` Philip McGrath
2024-06-28 13:20         ` Andrew Tropin
2024-06-29 19:55           ` Philip McGrath
2024-06-29 23:05         ` Maxime Devos
2024-06-30 22:27           ` Philip McGrath
2024-07-01  9:06             ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2024-07-06 16:42             ` Rob Browning
2024-07-06 18:56             ` Matt Wette
2024-06-26 16:04     ` Andy Wingo
2024-06-28 13:27       ` Andrew Tropin

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