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Ox - An immutable statically typed Lisp for the JVM
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SRFI-0 #30

Closed arrdem closed 5 years ago

arrdem commented 7 years ago

So Loj suggested using SRFI-0 conditional expansion and features to define the package.ox context. This works, but it begs a couple questions:

  1. How are features provided and defined? Is there a define-feature macro or something? Are features values, or are features simply the names of values or modules?
  2. How does the hypothetical define-feature work with phaseless code loading? Unless features are phaseless (definition names) it really doesn't work.
  3. This adds syntactic load to all package.ox files which doesn't really serve a purpose.
lojikil commented 7 years ago

define-feature should def be just def names, or things that have been defined ahead of time. It shouldn't be complicated, lest you head down the CL route.