Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:

> Hey folks,
>
> I've rebased the syncase branch on top of current master, and fixed
> everything I know about. Now you can have macros in modules that expand
> to references to identifiers that are local to the module that the macro
> was defined in.
>
> I mean to say:
>
>    (define-module (foo)
>      #:use-module (ice-9 syncase)
>      #:export (bar))
>
>    (define-syntax bar
>      (syntax-rules ()
>        ((_ y)
>         (kar (frob y)))))
>
>    (define kar car)
>
>    (define-syntax frob
>      (syntax-rules ()
>        ((_ y)
>         y)))
>
>    (define-module (baz)
>      #:use-module (foo))
>
>    (bar '(a b c d))
>     => a

Cool.  Does it work for defmacro and define-macro too?

> Give it a look-see, a whirl, a what-have-you! I'd like to merge this one
> in at some point within the next week or two. I'll wait for an OK from
> Ludo or Neil before doing so, though.

Thanks.  Starting to review in detail now...

     Neil


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