Re: PLT Scheme development directions

[Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu>]

Quoting Eli Barzilay:
> On Nov  7, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > Quoting Mark Seaborn:
> > > >    To address this problem, we're looking at a new module
> > > >    language/layer that gracefully handles macros (real macros
> > > >    --- not defmacro)
> > > 
> > > Presumably you mean hygienic macros like those in R5RS?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Is that going to be a re-implementation or something based on Dorai's
> stuff?

Dorai's stuff is a nice hack on defmacro, but we need a more powerful
base.

There will be some re-implementation, but I expect we'll grab existing
code from somewhere (else) as a starting point. To choose
appropriately, we still have a few decisions to make about the ending
point...

Matthew