Re: use-syntax / transformer doc bugs

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The documentation on module transformers and the "system transformer"
>> is a bit shaky.
>
> The whole module system is shaky, especially the interaction with
> syntax-case.  We need to clean it up in a big way, after 1.8.  A basic
> plan for what we want to end up with in the lower layers is in
> workbook/compilation/new-model.text.

I'd also suggest that we may want to look at the decisions PLT has
made before we make any major changes.  My impression is that they may
understand some of the compilation related issues better than many.
Aside from their docs, this paper also looks interesting, though I
haven't read it yet:

  Composable and Compilable Macros: You Want it When?
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/flatt02composable.html

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Rob Browning
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