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Yogthos f18ae3bd46 macroexpand-first analyzer order; one macro path; defmacro/letfn fixes 
The analyzer checked special forms before expanding macros, the reverse of the
canonical read -> macroexpand -> analyze order (Clojure/CLJS analyze-seq). Move
macroexpansion to the front of analyze-list. Knock-on fixes:

- letfn was both a (broken) macro expanding to let* AND a primitive special
  (analyze-letfn, proper letrec*). Macroexpand-first surfaced the macro, breaking
  mutual recursion; remove the macro, keep letfn a primitive.
- defmacro is now compiled by the analyzer (a :set-var-style :defmacro node that
  defs the expander fn via the fn macro — so destructuring arglists desugar — and
  marks the var a macro), so a non-top-level (when … (defmacro …)) works. The
  runtime spine's separate top-level defmacro interception is removed: one path.

SCI load 162 -> 202/218.
2026-06-22 00:54:16 -04:00
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image.ss macroexpand-first analyzer order; one macro path; defmacro/letfn fixes 2026-06-22 00:54:16 -04:00
prelude.ss macroexpand-first analyzer order; one macro path; defmacro/letfn fixes 2026-06-22 00:54:16 -04:00
README.md Scrub dangling Janet references; drop dead Janet-coupled files 2026-06-21 12:01:04 -04:00

README.md

Chez bootstrap seed

These two files are the bootstrap compiler for jolt-on-Chez — the seed that makes the build self-hosting with no Janet in the loop:

  • prelude.ss — the clojure.core prelude (all tiers + clojure.string/walk/ template/edn/set/pprint) as Scheme def-var! forms.
  • image.ss — the compiler image (jolt.ir + jolt.analyzer + jolt.backend-scheme) as Scheme def-var! forms.

Both are generated, not hand-written. They are checked in because a fresh checkout must be able to build jolt-on-Chez using only Chez: host/chez/bootstrap.ss loads this seed, then rebuilds the prelude + image from the .clj/.ss sources via the on-Chez compiler (read → analyze → emit, all on Chez). The seed is a joint byte-fixpoint: rebuilding from an up-to-date seed reproduces it exactly. make selfhost (host/chez/selfcheck.sh) runs host/chez/bootstrap.ss and diffs the rebuilt artifacts against the checked-in seed.

Re-minting

When the seed sources change (the core tiers, the compiler namespaces, the host contract, the reader, emit-image.ss), the seed drifts and make selfhost fails. Re-mint it by running host/chez/bootstrap.ss and writing the freshly rebuilt prelude/image back to host/chez/seed/prelude.ss / host/chez/seed/image.ss, then commit the refreshed files.