[racket-dev] syntax-property guards? (was: Re: The Stepper strikes again)

An hour ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> 1. The existence of Stepper knowledge in the Lazy compiler creates a
>    'spiritual' dependency between the Lazy language and a tool in
>    DrRacket (= Tool world). QUESTION: does this knowledge ever make
>    sense outside of our tool suite? Could it be reused by a
>    stack-tracing debuggger in a textual repl?

That's a question that leads to what I was talking about.
(But again, I was talking about the change to the core, not the lazy
language.)


50 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> FWIW, there is precedent for this kind of thing, namely the
> properties that get added to syntax objects to tell check syntax
> about bindings that aren't in the fully expanded program [...]

But those properties were made independent -- so even if check syntax
changes, that property will still exist.

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