2013/6/14 Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl>

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:30:28PM +0800, Xin Wang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I encountered a problem that previously defined macro can not be used
> > inside other macro defination.
> >
> > It seems that newly defined syntax does not available in macro expansion
> > environment, is it intended?
>
> That's correct; this problem is known as "phasing"; macros are defined in
> their own compilation phase.  Each phase can only see macros defined in
> earlier phases.
>
> To define a macro for the macro environment, you can wrap it in a
> begin-for-syntax block, or put it inside its own module and then
> use import-for-syntax to import it in the module that uses it.
>
>
Thanks, it works.


> Cheers,
> Peter
> --
> http://www.more-magic.net
>
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