[racket-dev] certificates and phases question

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 8 14:52:13 EDT 2010

I'm puzzled by the behavior of the below program.  In particular,
`get' doesn't work, but `get2' does, even though the only difference
is the phase at which they're executed.  `get' produces the
certificate error:

  compile: access from an uncertified context to unexported variable
from module: 'm1 in: x

Is there a way around this?  Working at phase 1 has become inconvenient for me.

#lang racket/load

(module m1 racket
  (define x 1)
  (define-syntax (m stx) #'(list x))
  (provide m))

(module m2 racket
  (require 'm1 (for-syntax syntax/parse))
  (define-syntax (get stx)
    (syntax-parse stx
      [(_ nm)
       (with-syntax ([(app lst val) (local-expand #'(m) 'expression null)])
         #'(define nm #'val))]))
  (define-syntax (get2 stx)
    (syntax-parse stx
      [(_ nm)
       (with-syntax ([(app lst val) (local-expand #'(m) 'expression null)])
         #'(define-for-syntax nm #'val))]))
  (get2 z))

(require 'm2)


-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu


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