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From: Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: hygiene and macro-introduced toplevel bindings
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:33:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B499B395-BC27-4E7D-B16E-DA5BF36E3B2E@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oc5l8chm.fsf@unquote.localdomain>

On 8 Mar 2011, at 23:37, Andy Wingo wrote:

> Everyone appears to want gensymmed names.  OK!  Let's consider this to
> be a bug, and that at some point in the future, Guile will start
> gensymming this names.

I want a syntax that allows one to explicitly choose which macro-bound variables to export, but otherwise, they should never be visible outside the macro (i.e., be uninterned). When exported, they will just have the name indicated.

Perhaps such a syntax might be used to export gensymmed names as well.

Hans





  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-27 21:37 hygiene and macro-introduced toplevel bindings Andy Wingo
2011-02-27 22:02 ` Hans Aberg
2011-02-28  0:15 ` Andreas Rottmann
2011-02-28 21:28   ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-28 21:49     ` Noah Lavine
2011-03-08 22:33       ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-28 22:32     ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-08 22:37     ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-09  9:33       ` Hans Aberg [this message]
2011-03-09 20:14         ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-04 13:48           ` Hans Aberg
2011-04-01  8:52       ` Andy Wingo

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