[racket-dev] Module metadata

How about just putting an export into the module that you build at compile time?

(Also you might want to go check and see how scribble does proc-doc
and possibly scribble/lp. I forget the details now, but they are doing
similar things.)

Robby

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I would like to associate metadata with a module based on its
> expansion.  In my case, I want the Dracula language to be able to
> construct an s-expression representing an ACL2 proof obligation at
> phase 1, associate it with the module, and have the Dracula tool in
> DrRacket extract the proof obligation at phase 0 so it can send it to
> ACL2.  In another case, someone on the IRC channel wants to associate
> documentation with the exports of a module.  Again, this information
> is constructed at phase 1, but might be read at some arbitrary other
> phase by another tool.
>
> Is there a way to do this?  I have not been able to find one.  We
> currently have various metadata associated with modules, such as the
> #:info and #:language-info options in syntax/module-reader, but those
> come from the reader.  The metadata is constructed prior to expansion.
>  Is it possible to add a similar channel for post-expansion metadata
> associated with modules?
>
> Carl Eastlund
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