Michael Schierl writes: Hello,
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote to guile-user@gnu.org[1] on 07 Jul 2017: >> Mark H Weaver writes: >> >>>> Does this mean Guile is not bootstrappable from source only? >>> >>> That's correct. psyntax-pp.scm is not source code, and it is needed to >>> bootstrap Guile. >> >> I'm facing the same problem with Mes. I have an implemenation of >> syntax-rules that is just about 200 lines of define-macro source code, >> but not syntax case. > >>> Having said this, I agree that it would be better if psyntax.scm were >>> written in such a way that it could be bootstrapped without the use of >>> itself. Maybe some day we'll rewrite it to make it so. >> >> That could be essential to our full source bootstrapping efforts so I'm >> very much interested! > > For the record, I have written a psyntax implementation that can be used > by Guile (3.0.2) and does not require an expanded version of itself. Oh, that's amazing! I see that you are using make-syntax-transformer (and others) which GNU Mes does not support yet; it only has define-macro. This may be a good reason/opportunity to work towards better Guile support in Mes. Greetings, Janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
