Re: [Chicken-users] syntactically completeness / consistency

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:24:56 +0200 (CEST) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:

> With the most recent commits (4.4.4), chicken is now consistent in the
> way core forms are handled. There are no hard-coded special forms and
> everything can be redefined, reexported and modified on import. Syntax
> may now also expand into module forms (if at toplevel, local or nested
> modules are still not available and not strictly necessary).
>
> So, the transition to hygienic macros and a real module system is
> hereby complete, not taking into account the bugs that will still lurk
> everywhere and the low performance of the expander, which will be
> worked on.

Fantastic, Felix.  Thanks a lot.

By the way, 4.4.4 runs the quickdoc.scm script in ~2.5s on the same
machine it takes ~7s with 4.4.0.  I suppose that's the result of
"slightly better expansion performance" as mentioned in the NEWS
file.  Just amazing!

Best wishes.
Mario