>> Then I have a new goal: understand that. :-)
>
> The deal is that macroexpansion produces tree-il. The usual
> macroexpander is provided by psyntax. But before psyntax is loaded,
> when the first bits of Scheme are seen, there is a boot expander written
> in C that produces tree-il, with suppo
On Thu 17 Nov 2011 18:44, Noah Lavine writes:
>>> - On a related note, why do most of the Tree-IL record type not appear
>>> in the define-type statement in tree-il.scm line 133, and is that
>>> connected with the borrow-core-vtables macro that I don't understand
>>> at all? :-)
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Th
Hello,
> Record-case parses slots by name, not by position.
> Match destructures by position, not by name.
Oh, interesting.
>> - On a related note, why do most of the Tree-IL record type not appear
>> in the define-type statement in tree-il.scm line 133, and is that
>> connected with the bo
On Thu 17 Nov 2011 00:46, Noah Lavine writes:
> - It looks like every Tree-IL type has a src slot, correct?
Yes
> why doesn't the record-case at module/language/tree-il.scm line 271
> (unparse-tree-il) match those src slots?
Record-case parses slots by name, not by position.
> Especially sinc
