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[Lionel Elie Mamane <address@hidden>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:05PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:30:45PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:

>>> Strange. Perhaps a version problem of Guile,

>> So if I recompile my TeXmacs with the guile I have installed it
>> might work?

> If you are ready to spend potentially lots of time on such issues,
> yes...

> As for me, I always limit myself to a simple set of (Scheme, in our
> current exemple, but it can be applied everywhere) features with
> which I can do everything, this way I (most of the time) avoid these
> 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.

> This being said, although perhaps not in the implementation of Guile
> (as usual...), syntax constructs are a root part of the Scheme spec,
> they should work perfectly.

Exactly.

> 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