Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic macros

[Peter Keller]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:22:32AM +0100, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
> Peter Keller wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:05:20AM +0100, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
> >
> >>2) Port the freely available syntax-case package from Dybvig et al.
> >>  to Chicken. This would have to be extended to allow embedding
> >>  line-number information in syntax objects, though.
> >>  AFAIK, SISC has taken this approach.
> >
> >
> >What would this option entail?
> >
> 
> I'm not sure. Basically the code should work fine on
> Chicken, but there are quite a number of subtle
> integration-issues, especially when compiling code.
> I will try to find out about this, anyway.

So this option will enable define-macro and define-syntax to be used
simultaneously? So no more -hygienic option to the interpreter or compiler?
Or will the meaning of -hygienic change so that it merely forbids low level
macros?

Thanks.

-pete