Re: Programs are nameless

[Andy Wingo]

Hello

On Tue 01 Jun 2010 23:25, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> ‘procedure-name’ doesn’t currently work on VM programs.  It may be due
> to commit bdf7759c, which commented out ‘maybe-name-value!’ calls in
> psyntax.
>
> Why are these commented out?  Is there some bootstrapping issue involved
> (e.g., ‘maybe-name-value!’ can’t work with the evaluator)?

Yep. We only have constructors for tree-il / macroexpanded structures in
psyntax; we would need a mutator to be able to patch the name. There are
various ways to fix this: add a mutator, add a second pass in the
compiler to name values...

Andy
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