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Re: compiling syntax and macro


Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@calvados.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:

> Nonono.  Just go ahead.  The reason why I choose to use extents
> instead of environments is that one
> 
> a) can build GOOPS ontop of it
> b) can build a prototype based OO system (like Cecil's) ontop of it
> c) gets fluid-define, fluid-let, fluid-set!, fluid-ref for free
> d) can build any module system ontop of it
> e) can build SRFI-9 ontop of it.
> 
> Ah, and the problems we've had with generic's: forget them, they don't
> exist anymore (the problems, not the generics, of course :>).

Sounds interesting. References/docs?

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