2013/1/22 Álvaro Castro-Castilla <alvaro.castro.castilla@gmail.com>

I've recalled that the issue happened when trying to compile with ffi code that couldn't be linked with native libs and loaded, ie depends on libraries for another platform. I believe this is true for BH old branch as well unless the code expansion doesnt load code in the interpreter (I doubt it). Please correct me if you can fix that, I'll be very happy :-)

Can you tell how to reproduce this?

I'll be able to tell you when I come back to BH. At the moment I use my own system with Alexpander. But you can take a look at my branch:

https://github.com/alvatarc/blackhole/commits/master

I'll get into tweaking the syntactic branch into good functioning and bringing order to documentation of surface aspects for all BH in a while.

If you plan on doing this, we should coordinate.

Re BH internals, documentation and adding comments, and perhaps even reimplementation of some bit just in case needed for high code clarity, I guess would be completely relevant.

Yes it is relevant. Especially the packages part needs some review. The macros part is too scary for me to dive into it ATM.

Also, what about documentation of these macro facilities in general, as you Alvaro proposed in an email ~2w ago?

Well, that's a completely different topic: I planned on writing about techniques for developing syntax-rules macros, but not about implementation details or any other gory details. Just some practical tutorial. I don't have time to do this if I get into BH though!

Best regards,

Álvaro