Hi, Andy Wingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We could replace it with srfi-9 records. However I see that there is a > failing compilation test for srfi-9 records in the test suite, > apparently there intentionally, because there is some problem involving > compilation phases, modules, and macro expansion: essentially, the > things that Flatt's paper solves. Exactly. A related message was this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/6015 . I had just read Flatt's paper, which led me to think we really needed a variant of `use-modules' to specify modules that are used only at compile-time, for their macros. > But: until then, bringing in SRFI-9 records would break the > self-compilability of guile-vm. ... which isn't much of a problem I suppose. :-) Moving to SRFI-9 looks like a good idea to me. > So another option would be to expand guile-vm to use GOOPS for its > compound record types. I think this is quite a good idea in the medium > term. I'm not sure. I'd prefer to use plain Scheme with SRFI-9 records in the compiler since using GOOPS may not buy us much. Thanks, Ludovic.
