Re: Use define-syntax for define-session[-public] (issue 553480044 by address@hidden)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 4:28 PM <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Please see Taylan's reply to the guile-devel list, which gives a
> succinct
> > explanation of why inner functions in macros can never work in the
> Guile 2.x
> > compiler. So we either forego compilation (at a 1.5 sec startup cost)
> or we
> > rewrite the macros to stop using inner functions.
>
> That's what I am trying right now, but you cannot quote outer functions
> as a value either (the problem is the value, not the innerness) so you
> need to do it by name and I would like not to have to export it, so I
> try with (@@ guile-user define-session-internal) but haven't found the
> right incantation yet.  Still fiddling.  If it cannot be avoided, it
> will end up as an exported define-session-internal .

I guess we would have to inline the function (effectively changing it
from function to macro.)

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