Re: guile and XML (mixp)

[Dale P. Smith]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> What seems very reasonable, however, would be a way for a module to
>> discover whether it is being loaded for use-syntax or use-module, so
>> that it can emit a warning, or even signal an error, if the use is
>> inappropriate.
>>
>
> I'm not sure extending `define-module' just to solve this specific
> problem is a good idea.  In particular, `use-syntax' itself doesn't seem
> too reasonable (see [0]).  Thus, in the long-term, it may be preferable
> to remove `use-syntax' or replace it with more robust primitives, rather
> than working around it.

I suspect that the sole purpose of use-syntax was to allow the use of
syntax-case macros instead of the non-standard lisp style macros that
are the default.  I don't think it was ever intended to be generally
useful.

Long term, Guile should probably have syntax-case macros available
without having to resort to use-syntax.

   -Dale

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Dale P. Smith