Ian Price <ianpric...@gmail.com> writes: > As for residualisation, it's not a technical term. More accurate > terminology would be serialisation of syntax objects. Maybe you can > interpret my use of "residue", as being partly negative, as residue is > something left over at the end of a process. Syntax objects are quite > big, (in one experiment I did today, it was half the size of the > output) and if possible, I'd like to avoid emitting them, where > possible, since this is going to be sent over the network.
You might want to look at 'squeeze-syntax-object' in ice-9/compile-psyntax.scm, which we use to reduce the size of psyntax-pp.scm. Unfortunately, this breaks 'datum->syntax' in the general case. Regards, Mark