Re: [Jscheme-user] Compiled Macros

[Graham S. <fo...@pa...>]

Timothy Hickey wrote:

 > We could also automatically compile macro1.scm when the (load
 > "macro1.scm") expression is compiled in macro2.scm or we could just
 > scan through it and pull out the macro definitions.....

I like this sort of approach better than an include statement because it 
means that as a user of a library, I don't have to remember which 
definitions are functions and which are macros. If macros and functions 
are handled differently, then a library provider would have to create 
two separate files so that the user could do:

	(include "mylib-macros.scm")
	(load "mylib.scm")

Ideally, the macro definitions would be saved in the java file so that 
they would work even if the user was loading a compiled .class file, 
e.g. (mylib.load). This would guarantee that (load "mylib.scm") and 
(mylib.load) always had the same semantics. It would also allow JScheme 
libraries to be distributed as .class/.jar files.

--g