Re: Can (export ...) be used reliably from inside a macro expansion?

That did the trick! ha... I should read the docs better.

Thanks Peter!
Best,

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM Peter Bex via Chicken-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 09:51:20AM -0700, Rolando Abarca via Chicken-users
> wrote:
> > So my question is: is it possible in CHICKEN to dynamically generate
> export
> > declarations from inside a macro expansion, or is the module system
> > designed in such a way that the export list must be known before macro
> > expansion?
>
> This should work.  I struggled a bit myself before realizing that the
> documentation says an export should always *precede* its definition.
> Maybe you missed that too.
>
> For instance, this works:
>
>   (module foo ()
>     (import scheme (chicken module))
>
>     (define-syntax define&export
>       (syntax-rules ()
>         ((_ ?name ?value)
>          (begin (export ?name)
>                 (define ?name ?value)))))
>
>     (define&export x 1))
>
>   (import foo)
>   (print x)
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>