Re: [Chicken-hackers] require, require-extension-for-syntax, and the initial macro environment

[John Cowan]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

 

I'm not sure why we still need these (probably because require-extension
is a SRFI (55)?).

As a SRFI fan, I still say flush it.  SRFI 55 isn't very portable: besides Chicken, where it began, it spread only to Gauche, Guile, SISC, STklos, SigScheme.

 

But honestly, I think it's better to just drop require-extension-for-syntax
and perhaps even require-extension.

Let's drop both.

 

One more question: Where should we document "the initial (nameless) macro
environment"?  For example, cond-expand and module and such need a place
to be documented too, and they're strictly speaking not part of a module
(but it's weird to have to look them up somewhere completely different).

What all do we need besides import and module?

 

;; TODO: Eventually, cond-expand should move to the
;; (chicken base) module to match r7rs.  Keeping it in the initial env
;; makes it a whole lot easier to write portable CHICKEN 4 & 5 code.

Fair enough.  Note that there are two cond-expands in R7RS: one in R7RS library language, and one that is a Scheme _expression_.

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