I posted this to users@ first, but I think this might be more relevant here.
The core problem is that syntax-local-lift-require
<http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/stxtrans.html?q=syntax-local-lift-require#(def._((quote._~23~25kernel)._syntax-local-lift-require))>
lifts the #%require form to the top of the enclosing module. This has the side
effect of preventing those require specs from including submodules.
This is a real problem, since Typed Racket’s require/typed form uses
local-require, which in turn uses syntax-local-lift-require. This means that
require/typed currently cannot require submodules. It seems to me that either
require/typed, require-local, or syntax-local-lift-require needs to be modified
to be compatible with submodules, but I’m not sure how this should be achieved.
Should the module form be hoisted to the top of its enclosing module? Or will
that cause problems I’m not foreseeing? I’d really appreciate some kind of
solution to this problem because I’ve developed what I think is a fairly nice
macro for use with Typed Racket, but I’d need it to properly interoperate with
submodules to work correctly.
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