[Chicken-users] macroexpansion and csc

[Heinrich Taube]

hi There is something about macro expansion and csc that i dont  
understand. I have a macro with-optkeys that calls expand-optkeys to  
compute a form.  I define the macro and the expansion function  
together in my main file "main.scm" , and then  i actually USE the  
macro to define functions in an api file that gets included, lets call  
it "myfuncs.scm":

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;; main.scm

(define-macro (with-optkeys spec . body)
 (expand-optkeys (car spec) (cdr spec) body))

(define (expand-optkeys args vars body)
  `(let (...) ,@body))

(include "myfuncs.scm")

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;; myfuncs.scm

(define (foo . input)
 (with-optkeys (input  (x #t) (y -99) z)
   (list x y z)))
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Now when I try to generate my cpp program it bombs

csc -c++ -embedded -t main.scm


Error: during expansion of (with-optkeys ...) - unbound variable:  
expand-optkeys



How do i get the (define expand-optkeys ...) to be defined so that my  
api functions can expand to it when i generate my cpp program?



(if i move the contents of main.scm to the top of myfuncs.scm and then  
LOAD myfuncse into csi then the api functions defined therein work.)