- From: Lionel Elie Mamane <address@hidden>
- To: Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>
- Cc: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] use-syntax for TeXmacs guile modules
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:13:53 +0200
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:05PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
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Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:30:45PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
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>> Strange. Perhaps a version problem of Guile,
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> So if I recompile my TeXmacs with the guile I have installed it
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> might work?
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If you are ready to spend potentially lots of time on such issues,
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yes...
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As for me, I always limit myself to a simple set of (Scheme, in our
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current exemple, but it can be applied everywhere) features with
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which I can do everything, this way I (most of the time) avoid these
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problems with not-very-much-used features which are less maintained.
From a naive standpoint, S5RS macros are not a "not-very-much-used"
feature of Scheme... The fact that you need to import new syntax from
a module to have them in Guile is just a ... guile technicality.
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This being said, although perhaps not in the implementation of Guile
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(as usual...), syntax constructs are a root part of the Scheme spec,
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they should work perfectly.
Exactly.
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Side note: do you *really* need using the Scheme syntax ?
No, I could teach myself Guile-specific macros instead of using the
R5RS ones. Will probably do that.
--
Lionel
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