Re: [Chicken-users] miscmacros hygienic

[felix winkelmann]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Jim Ursetto <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> (import (only chicken
>              when unless handle-exceptions
>              let-optionals make-parameter))
>
> However adding this import line to miscmacros is basically useless (as far as 
> I
> can tell) because the macros are expanded in the caller's environment, so the
> caller is the one who needs to do the import from chicken.
>
> I'd like to know the proper way to handle this, if any.  Does the caller
> need to explicitly import any dependencies?

Unfortunately,yes (in the moment).

>
> Similarly, as while* actually expands into an invocation of if*, it does
> not work for the caller to do (import (only miscmacros while*)), as the
> if* in the resulting expansion of while* will be undefined.
>
> In fact the following doesn't look hygienic at all:
>
>  #;1> (module foo ()
>    (import scheme (only miscmacros while*))
>    (define-syntax if*
>      (lambda (f r c) (error 'bad)))
>    (while* (it (> 0 5)) (display it)))
>
>  Error: during expansion of (if*1305 ...) - bad
>
> Is this a bug or am I just confused?

Bug.


cheers,
felix