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bear <bear@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > My requirement for separate compilation may be more stringent than > yours, but if you need to compile modules separately with no order > dependencies, and one module can import both procedures and macros > from other modules, I think that there is, really, exactly one way > to solve the linking problem. And that way changes the rules of > evaluation so completely that the resulting dialect, unless > artificially restricted, is no longer scheme. I don't know what exactly you're thinking of, but there's certainly ongoing research on independent compilation in the presence of "exported macros," and the resulting systems look very much like Scheme. However, the issues connected to "linking" go beyond that. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla