[racket] Compiling programs with embedded procedures

Ok, that makes sense. So would the correct way to create code for
runtime at expansion-time, be to use syntax objects which represent
code that evaluates to procedures instead of the procedures
themselves?

-Eric

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:31:23 -0500, Eric Dobson wrote:
>> I am trying to understand how the expansion/compilation process deals
>> with embedding procedures in the syntax of a program, and I have now
>> constructed a program that returns different values when run in
>> drracket, and racket. It also does not compile for me using raco make.
>> I was wondering what people think the correct value it should produce
>> is, or if it is invalid as raco make would suggest.
>
> We've so far stopped short of having the expander reject 3-D syntax
> (i.e., syntax that embeds values that aren't `read'able), but I think
> that's just because we haven't yet fixed all old uses of it. 3-D syntax
> doesn't work in general and you should avoid it.
>
>