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From: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: reader macros for hidden packages
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:43:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220626094333.GB3341@gac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0f6daaa2146a8b4d0d9718c9e861c6277a7c7aad.camel@telenet.be>

On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 09:27:15 +0200 Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
> jgart schreef op za 25-06-2022 om 22:27 [-0500]:
> > Out of curiosity, is it possible to make reader macros like this with guile?
> > 
> > ```
> > @hidden
> > (define-public python-httplib2
> >   (package
> >     (name "python-httplib2")
> > [...]
> > The above would make the package hidden by using `hidden-package`.
> 
> FWIW, read-hash-extend things aren't macros, though that can be worked
> around with some cleverness, see (guix gexp) where #~(...) -> (gexp
> ...) by the read syntax, and 'gexp' is a macro.

I've tried reading that code. Looking to get back to it again soon. gexps
are still somewhat fuzzy for me. Atleast at the implementationn level.

> Also, @hidden does not start with #, 

I was inspired by this common lisp code using cl-syntax-annot:

https://github.com/fukamachi/ningle/blob/a9052827757c54a83c9648175c11530e79295513/context.lisp#L8

>so you can't extend the read
> syntax that wat with read-hash-extend. (I suppose  you could go #hidden
> instead).

Does read-hash-extend allow for more than a single character after the hash # symbol?

From reading the docs it looked like not... I'll spend some more repl time with it.


Just for the sake of hacking. I'm finding excuses to write guile that I
wouldn't normally write and to explore hacking on guix APIs to see what
I can mold them too.

Take this exploration with goops and guix for example:

https://github.com/drewc/druix/blob/ad1c15bd6e20375b83ce398416d0f16de0385ab5/druix/versions.scm#L33


> 
> Or a new 'define-public-hidden':
> 
> (define-public-hidden python-httplib2
>   (package
>     (name "...")
>     ...))

I like this idea. You'd implement that as a macro that inserts hidden-package for the user of define-public-hidden?

> or move the relevant packages upstream?  

Yup, that's the next step. Was just trying to find a way to suppress
warnings until I have time to upstream the relevant packages and to hack
me some guile for fun.

Also, the module system has a
> #:replace, which may be useful to put in the (guixrus packages ...)
> modules such that in case a module imports both the guixrus and guix
> module, the guixrus wins (not 100% sure if that would works).

Thanks for all the advice. It's much appreciated!

all best,

jgart


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-26 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-26  3:27 reader macros for hidden packages jgart
2022-06-26  7:27 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-26 14:43   ` jgart [this message]
2022-06-26 14:55     ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-26 20:08       ` jgart
2022-06-27  8:56 ` Ludovic Courtès

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