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by hayley-patton 726 days ago
> but the fact that it then supports Scheme macros

Good for them.

> possibly share code between developing for the PreScheme compiler target and non-PreScheme targets

"possibly" is a strong word, seeing that Pre-Scheme is a statically typed, explicitly memory managed subset and all. There's a very large and coarse-grained semantic leap.

Then you can read the rest of <https://www.steveblackburn.org/pubs/papers/vmmagic-vee-2009....>, for a bonus.