On 8/10/20 4:26 PM, Linus Björnstam wrote:
> Well done! Macros are great fun. I glanced through your source and could follow it without much hickups. 

Thanks! It has been good learning experience.

> You probably know this already, but you can actually do the sanitize-rest at compile time for cases where the procedure is not passed as an argument to some.other procedure.
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> Say we (define* (blah ...) Body...).
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> Then you define one function that does argument checking (%blah-check) at runtime and one that does not (%blah)
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> Then make the regular blah a macro. Using identifier macros you dispatch to %blah-check if it is not used in call position, or check all keyword arguments and sanitize them at compile time and dispatch it to %blah. 
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> I spent some time implementing define-inlinable*, a keyword-aware define-inlinable, using that. I never baked it fully, so I never submitted a patch, but that is the approach I took, and the approach that define-inlinable uses which you can find in the guile sources.
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I hadn't thought of this at all. Interesting idea, might give it a try.