From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: macros, procedure->macro
Date: 09 Jul 2002 22:16:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fzysa9fe.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.05.10207012134500.15843-100000@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de
>>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Herrmann <dirk@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:
Dirk> 1) Some macro expert should check that replacing the call to
procedure-> macro in boot-9.scm by a call to
procedure->memoizing-macro is safe.
This change is safe, since define-option-interface is only ever used
at top level.
Dirk> 2) Every guile user should determine, whether it would be OK
Dirk> if we got rid of "macros".
Dirk> 3) Decide officially, whether it is OK to remove "macros" from the head
Dirk> branch.
Dirk> If all results are positive, I will go ahead and remove the support
Dirk> for "macros" from guile. After that, I will take a close look at "acros"
Dirk> and we will play a similar game with "acros" again...
Before doing this, I think we need to state clearly when macro
expansion will happen in the future Guile.
There was a discussion on this just a few weeks ago which, to my mind,
was left unresolved.
(As far as I understand, the options are just after reading and just
before memoization, but just-after-reading makes recursive macro
definitions difficult, and just-before-memoization leads to rather
lame execution-dependent expansion.
Obviously, by definition, the exact timing only matters for
non-hygienic macros; but my assumption is that an awful lot of people
want non-hygienic macros.)
Neil
PS. I think we should not mix up this discussion with one about class
redefinition!
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-01 19:56 macros, procedure->macro Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-01 21:30 ` Rob Browning
2002-07-03 20:24 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-01 22:14 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-03 20:11 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-07 17:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-08 20:31 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-09 18:22 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-10 5:21 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-10 19:31 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-10 19:57 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-10 20:08 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-01 22:17 ` Gary Houston
2002-07-09 21:16 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2002-07-10 5:46 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-10 10:15 ` Neil Jerram
2002-07-10 20:03 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-13 0:09 ` Neil Jerram
2002-07-13 2:36 ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-07-14 15:23 ` Neil Jerram
2002-07-14 16:26 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-15 6:03 ` Rob Browning
2002-07-13 6:53 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-14 15:23 ` Neil Jerram
[not found] <200207012220.PAA08054@onyx.he.net>
2002-07-03 20:08 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-04 20:16 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-07 18:15 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] <87n0t376c9.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-07-08 20:23 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-09 18:13 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-10 21:54 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-13 9:53 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-13 18:38 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] <m3lm8e5o69.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net>
2002-07-14 21:35 ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-15 20:48 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-15 22:42 ` Neil Jerram
2002-07-16 22:00 ` Dirk Herrmann
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