Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic branch (progress report, sort of)

[Hans Bulfone]

hi,

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:52:17PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:

> It would be helpful if the chicken users and hackers take a moment
> to consider whether this is acceptable and right, or whether we
> should keep the current system, which is less scalable in terms of
> modularity, but nevertheless quite stable.

to me it sounds like the way to go; i always wanted to have a module
system in the core that can be used by eggs without worrying about
dependencies or incompatibilities.  the same is true for a hygienic
macro system i guess ... but i haven't used hygienic macros a lot
before.

my question is: will it still be possible to write a (er-) macro that
creates new identifiers like define-record does? from previous
postings i got differing impressions.
i know it's not considered good style to do that but it saved me a lot
of typing in the directfb egg and those macros are only used
internally and not made available to user code.

tnx&bye,
hans.