[plt-scheme] Context-specific namespaces

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 9 06:57:22 EST 2006

--- Lauri Alanko <la at iki.fi> wrote:

> So: is there some way to attach syntactic information to
> identifiers
> that syntactic extensions could use _without_ actually
> creating an
> ordinary binding for that identifier?

How about we differentiate between variable and functions,
and we can use a #' operator to turn the latter into the
former?

But seriously:

  - the struct type value has uses outside of structures
(e.g. pattern matching, introspection)

  - that way madness lies

I don't think it is a good idea.

N.

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