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1 point by vrk 5899 days ago | link | parent

Most module system proposals so far suffer from the same problem: macros won't work properly. However, this is not my conclusion, but what many people have stated. It's not entirely clear to me what the exact problems are. Could someone elaborate?


5 points by soegaard 5899 days ago | link

Matthew Flatt.

"Composable and Compilable Macros: You Want it When?".

International Conference on Functional Programming

(ICFP'2002)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf

And you are right, making modules and macros work together turns out to be harder than most people realize. Schemers have thought long and hard about the problem. It would be wise to look at the papers at

    http://library.readscheme.org/page5.html
before designing a module system.

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