Re: syntax closures

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi,

On Thu 17 Jan 2013 21:51, Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all, I wanted to resurrect the idea of a syntactic closure. I did
> some thinking and

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> 2. The idea is to capture the syntactic environment in template1 ... and
>  call the
>     closure with the captured syntactic elements and insert the
> resulting syntax into
> .

Into what?

> (read-hash-extend #\_ syntax-closure-reader)

Have you tried having your srfi-72 module export a binding for unsyntax?

> The question for me is how to treat this code, as a library of it's
> own supporting e.g. racket and guile and other schemes with the
> syntax case system, or should we try to make this reader extension as
> nice as possible and incorporate the code in guile. Is #_ ok? do you
> have any other suggestion?

I would prefer not to include it in the core; in my ignorance I do not
see the need, especially if it can be implemented in a library.  Of
course it may make sense to bundle a srfi-72 implementation with guile,
but ideally we can do so without affecting the core.

Regards,

Andy
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