Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Drop now-unnecessary exports from the "chicken.export" module

[felix . winkelmann]

> This brings up the obvious question: what should we do with
> (chicken expand)?  I was considering a patch to rename it to
> (chicken syntax) like we have in c-l-r, but should we then also
> rename the expand.scm file to syntax.scm?  I think this would
> be the most sensible thing to do.
>
> But if we do that, this makes the name of chicken-syntax.scm a bit
> confusing, as it doesn't contain the chicken.syntax implementation.
> Perhaps we should first decide what to do with the macros defined in
> chicken-syntax.scm before finalizing what we do with expand.scm.
>
> I can imagine those macros going into (chicken base) and/or some
> other modules, but a (chicken syntax) module with them in it makes
> sense too.  Then we could just rename (chicken syntax) on the
> c-l-r page to (chicken expand) and keep expand.scm as-is.
>
> I honestly don't know what the best course of action is.
>
> I'd also like to hear what the other core members think.

(chicken syntax), and keep expand.scm. Don't overdo it.


felix