[plt-scheme] On hygiene and trust

From: Joe Marshall (jmarshall at alum.mit.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 9 15:04:05 EDT 2009

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Robby
Findler<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>>> And when I go in the other direction, I have the symbol `foo' and I
>>>> wish to create some code that uses it, I have to transform it into a
>>>> syntax object with the appropriate scope.
>>>
>>> (Same as above -- you need to add the extra information.)
>>
>> But why?  Surely there is a reasonable default.
>>
> I think that there isn't any reasonable default.

How about an unreasonable default, then?  Always use the
scope of the macro and never use the scope of the call-site
unless explicitly overridden.  Or if that's too cumbersome,
then the other way.


-- 
~jrm


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