Re: [Chicken-users] macro expansion

[Joerg F. Wittenberger]

Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have some source code, which compiles fine (but is buggy), how do I
> 
> > load that into the resulting executable?  Yes, 'load' but this appears
> > not to know about defind-macro forms, how do I get them to work.
> >
> 
> 
> What exactly do you mean with define-macro forms? Do you need
> the macros definitions in the *loaded* file or in the *loading* file?
> Or better: can you give an example?

More primitive: The loaded code contains

(define-macro (my-fine-macro arg) `(my-damn-proc ,arg))

and the loader appears not to know about 'define-macro' and hence
complains about variable 'arg' not bound (when preparing the call to
'my-find-macro instead of defining it.)

/Jörg

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