I think the Guile manual talks about it. I'll build the PDF of it and put
it in my guile mirror's releases area after a few minutes here. There's an
html version online.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 07:21 Massimiliano Gubinelli <m.gubine...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 16 Jun 2016, at 14:41, Darcy Shen <sad...@zoho.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have migrated some existing statements that are not liked by Guile-2
>
> item 1. conditional define
>
>    (if (condition)      (define a ...)      (define a ...))    (define a (if 
> (condition)      body1      body2))
>
>
> note that semantics is not preserved: you do at runtime a check which
> should be performed only once at compile/definition-time. It is not clear
> that this is a wise choice. I would like to understand how to do
> conditional compilation in Guile-2 this is part of the matter. I remember
> having found something to specify that some form has to be evaluated by the
> compiler at compile time but I do not remember exactly right now. Anyway
> this change seems a bit odd….
>
> item 2. curried define
>
>    (define ((x a) b c)      (display a)      (display b)      (display c))    
> (define (x a)      (lambda (b c)        (display a)        (display b)        
> (display c)))
>
> and use cond-expand for backward compatibility
>
> Still don't know what's going wrong. I will try to extract the wrong pattern.
>
> Since it works in init-texmacs.scm but does not work in a module, I guess 
> that the problem is related to Guile's Module System.
>
>
> ---- On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:46:51 +0800 *Massimiliano Gubinelli
> <m.gubine...@gmail.com <m.gubine...@gmail.com>>* wrote ----
>
> Hi,
>
> On 15 Jun 2016, at 17:07, Darcy Shen <sad...@zoho.com> wrote:
>
> The problem is that after making tm-define.scm compile I can `tm-define`
> something in `init-texmacs.scm` and it compiles and works. But in the
> module `tm-preferences.scm`, it will cause a compile error where I use
> `tm-define`.
>
>
>
> do you know what is going wrong? If I remember correctly my attempts to
> Guile-2 there were statements which were mixing compile-time and run-time
> evaluations (like for example conditional definitions) and they were not
> liked by Guile-2.
>
> Max
>
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