- the syntactic environment, which binds identifiers to their static behavior for the macro expansion algorithm, i.e., whether the identifier is mapped to lambda, let-syntax, or a macro (etc.) -- identifiers are bound in this environment by define-syntax, for example.
- the transformer environment, which is a regular Scheme evaluation environment, but exists during the elaboration phase, not a runtime -- identifiers are bound in this environment by define-for-syntax, for example.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Compile-time environments
PLT maintains a phase separation between macro expansion and program evaluation. The first phase is known as macro elaboration-time, and the latter as runtime. The runtime contains a normal environment mapping variables to values, but at elaboration-time, there are two environments at work:
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