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1 point by almkglor 6105 days ago | link | parent

Why not local identifiers? It won't hurt anyway, since:

  (fn (x) x) == (fn (y) y)
Quoted symbols are more problematic. The problem is that you can't determine how macros will bash quoted symbols. For example, (tag (x) ...) implicitly creates 'x. And prior to replacement, you can't be sure if the 'tag here is pg:arc1's tag or some other module's 'tag macro.

An alternative is to make the (pr ...) versions of similarly-named symbols in different modules the same; this probably involves hacking (coerce ... 'string) to cut out the module name for symbols.



1 point by binx 6105 days ago | link

If a module doesn't export any macros, the problem would go away. Just macroexpand all function definitions, then all quoted symbols can be detected.

Hygienic macros can also be dealt properly, mzscheme is an example. But I have no idea how Arc macros can work well with modules.

Maybe the CL package system is the only way.

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1 point by almkglor 6104 days ago | link

Hmm, probably means we need a separate macro namespace. Heck, stuff like (let obj (table) (obj 1)) doesn't do as you expect, because of the mixing of macros in the same namespace as functions and values.

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