Re: Planning work

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> OK.  I think I agree with essentially everything you've said here and
> in what follows, so the next question is how do we get started?  I'd
> really like to have (ASAP), a framework like you've described, even if
> for the moment it's nothing more than a more-or-less no-op skeleton.

We can concentrate on just `compile-file' and work out a scheme how to
make `load' deal with compiled files in addition to source files.
Then would come the macro expansion pass.  We would probably start
with `ice/psyntax.ss'.

> Just having a trivial implementation would be wonderful.  We would
> finally have a sandbox where we can clear up (and/or decide about)
> the various important semantics concerning macros/modules/etc. wrt
> compile and run times.

Yes, exactly.