At Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:53:16 -0500 (EST), "J. Ian Johnson" wrote: > I should mention that the literature on staged metaprogramming calls this > "cross-stage persistence," (CSP) so I second Carl's proposal of cross-phase.
All module declarations are cross-phase persistent (unlike module instantiations), so I still don't think that (as suggested by Vincent, originally) is the right description of a declaration. "Cross-phase-persistence-inducing" would be an accurate description, but that's a mouthful. Is there a short variant that connects to existing terminology better than "phase-collapsing"? > From: Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> [...] > > First of all, thanks very much, Matthew, for implementing this! This looks > like a great feature to me. I have often been frustrated that users' data > structures aren't easy to quote or to manipulate in macros in the same way > as pairs or vectors; this should go a long way to improving the situation. I don't know whether this is going to be a solution to the problem of making new kinds of data quotable, but it may be a piece of the puzzle. > An amusing but probably not too informative name: "one-phase-fits-all". ;) :) > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Norman Gray <nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > On 2013 Feb 27, at 01:14, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > > > I think part of the problem is distinguishing "module declarations" > > > (which don't have a phase) from "module instantiations" (which are > > > normally phase-specific). > > > > If 'which don't have a phase' is the key phrase, how about: > > > > phase-neutral > > phase-independent > > unphased > > phase-exempt That phrase "which don't have a phase" is meant to be about all module declarations. We're looking for a phrase that refers only to the new kind of module declaration. The adjectives above might reasonably apply to the module instantiations, but I don't think they're right for module declarations. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev