Re: [Scheme-reports] ANN: first draft of R7RS small language available

[Andre van Tonder <andre@x>]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:34:23 -0400, Andre van Tonder <andre@x> 
> wrote:
>
>> The latter behaviour may be compatible with the document in systems in 
>> which all identifiers are considered implicitly bound at toplevel, so the 
>> DEFINE would be like a SET!
>
> Even in systems where this is the case, and Chez in particular, this does not 
> do this.

I thinkthe reason Chez does not doi this is becasue you are replacing a 
syntactic binding for ELSE by a variable binding, so the DEFINE is not like a 
SET!.  IF the original binding of  ELSE was a variable binding, the define would 
be like a SET! and the ELSE clause would match.

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