ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 16 Oct 2025 14:10 - 14:35 at Peony NW - Macros and Denotational Semantics

Macro embedding is a popular approach to defining extensible shallow embeddings of object languages in Scheme-like host languages. While macro embedding has even been shown to enable implementing extensible typed languages in systems like Racket, it comes at a cost: compile-time performance. In this paper, we revisit micros-syntax to intermediate representation (IR) transformers, rather than source syntax to source syntax transformers (macros). Micro embedding enables stopping at an IR, producing a deep embedding and enabling high performance compile-time functions over an efficient IR, before shallowly embedding the IR back into source syntax. Combining micros with several design patterns to enable the IR and functions over it to be extensible, we achieve extensible hybrid embedding of statically typed languages with significantly improved compile-time compared to macro-embedding approaches. We describe our design patterns and propose new abstractions packaging these patterns.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 16 Oct

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13:45 - 15:30
Macros and Denotational SemanticsScheme at Peony NW
13:45
25m
Talk
Rewriting Macros on the Fly: A Modular Approach to Administrative Reduction During Expansion
Scheme
Paul Downen University of Massachusetts at Lowell
14:10
25m
Talk
Fast and Extensible Hybrid Embeddings with Micros
Scheme
Sean Bocirnea University of British Columbia, William J. Bowman University of British Columbia
14:35
20m
Talk
Hygienic Macros via Staged Environment Machines (Position Paper)
Scheme
Yuito Murase Kyoto University, Japan
14:55
25m
Talk
Checking a Denotational Semantics of Scheme in Agda
Scheme
Peter D. Mosses Swansea University and Delft University of Technology