From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: hygiene and macro-introduced toplevel bindings Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:33:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87bp1xui8e.fsf@vir.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299623630 27105 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 22:33:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Noah Lavine Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 23:33:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px5TG-0005XU-VK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:33:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px5TA-00010E-UJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50473 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px5T2-000109-Nv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:33:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px5T1-0002dl-Sz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:33:24 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:62583 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px5T1-0002dh-L5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D1A4A03; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:34:49 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=vwXCfKgxahoBbitDmr/EYf84CfY=; b=OxQLlF wND88IYIesK0OGLZcWjRpR6Coo/uDuI7Qtkuia7hUdgEOUkP4hF8xZ7miKIW1EP7 6WTUBuUP9h+vgR3HdOgtTBstbSj+PpF2lYbZ1BACV2mamGoXwr4ybjnJ5DnV6v/v XfLBzYMsTeyC5+F5xuqQJQj+ha/rPgXGNjEyg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=On16ssXEuTtQ0q7c7W3Axtqg/yswSrXE UGavy3DBUnjZ4D6H/bIvEKHR7Sb163Dkr+5Wx5vU6yK2bIFXEm0UiiR5lzaM14xw 59m0OtEP4oihl7xynB7uTBe+Xumo0fpA62oIUlEMti/rn79/XLpGN8GHb8qZoY41 xBgqz9Z+8NU= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30D54A02; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:34:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED8A34A00; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:34:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Noah Lavine's message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:49:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 45638072-49D4-11E0-A44F-E8AB60295C12-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 64.74.157.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11831 Archived-At: On Mon 28 Feb 2011 22:49, Noah Lavine writes: > val (defined in call to define-syntactic-accessor, file.scm:53) = 5 > val (defined in call to define-syntactic-accessor, file.scm:55) = 7 It's not a bad idea. Our docstring situation for values -- like ints, for example -- is not that good; if we could attach metadata to the variable objects themselves, that would be nice for (system xref) purposes. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/