[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Move last few macros out of chicken [was: Re: What to do with remaining macros?]

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 05:25:00PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just tagged and built a 5.0.0pre5 snapshot with the intention of then
> dropping the "chicken" module, only to find out that I had forgotten we
> still have several macros being exported by (only) the chicken module.
> 
> What should we do with these?  My suggestions in square brackets
> 
> - time [chicken.time]
> - assert [chicken.base]
> - ensure [chicken.type]
> - eval-when [chicken.base, or just get rid of it?]
> - select [chicken.base, or just get rid of it?]
> - define-for-syntax [chicken.syntax]
> - define-compiler-syntax [chicken.syntax]
> - let-compiler-syntax [chicken.syntax]

Attached is a patch that makes it so.  Only "ensure" has been removed
instead of moved to chicken.type (which was the wrong place for it
anyway; chicken.base would've been more suitable).  We don't use it
anywhere in core and I don't think it's used much by eggs either.

After this patch is accepted and applied, we can move these macros
into the miscmacros egg (or maybe let eval-when fall by the wayside
because it's a weird CL concept that doesn't fit the Scheme model
very well, and can be replaced by cond-expand anyway)

Cheers,
Peter

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