Thank you Mark and John. On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 18:18, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote:
> The problem here is that 'make-person' is a macro. Macros are expanded > at compile time, and must therefore be available at compile time. > > When you compile 'm2.scm', those macros are not available, because > 'load' only has effects at run-time, by design. Since there is no macro > definition for 'make-person' at compile-time, Guile's compiler generates > code that assumes it will be a procedure. > > In summary, you cannot use 'load' to import macros from another module. > > > For various reasons I must keep (load "module.scm") mechanism > If you can share those reasons, perhaps I can help you find another > solution. > The only reason is that I've started cleaning up numerous modules in GnuCash written about 20 years ago, and the hyper-modular approach is too difficult to try unravel for now. So, I've converted records to srfi-9 wherever possible (i.e. used internally), and left the exported ones alone. This one was a fun one to fix: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/e3a695d0 ;-)
