Re: Syntax and gexp for ff5f34ae757d709987896d6164bf125319a0f764

[Josselin Poiret]

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> I've seen this too, but it disappears if you byte-compile the project.
> I'm not sure what that means, although it does seems sub-optimal that we
> rely on byte-compilation for the code to evaluate correctly.

The problem actually comes from stale byte-compiled files.  If you were
to interpret everything, it would work properly.  The issue is when a
variable becomes a syntax-transformer, ie. a macro: then it should get
expanded at compile-time, but guile doesn't recompile dependents
(because it doesn't know about them).  Hence, in dependent .go files,
the variable didn't get expanded, and is then used at runtime, hence the
error.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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