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Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers

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Subject: Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@x>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 18:05:20 -0400
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Organization: Indiana University
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On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:03:42 -0400, Alaric Snell-Pym  
<alaric@x> wrote:

> On 05/12/11 17:02, Per Bothner wrote:
>
>> This solution works pretty well in Kawa, which has good column-level
>> diagnostics.  There are some problems: You can't give a precise
>> position to a symbol in the cdr of a dotted pair - but that is a minor
>> problem since Scheme doesn't allow dotted pairs in non-quoted  
>> expressions.
>
> O RLY?
>
> Is (lambda (a b c . rest) ...) not legal?

More than this, anyone can write a macro that allows dotted pairs in its  
form.

	Aaron W. Hsu


-- 
Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking.

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References:
- [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Andy Wingo <wingo@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Alex Shinn <alexshinn@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Andy Wingo <wingo@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Alex Shinn <alexshinn@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Andy Wingo <wingo@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Andy Wingo <wingo@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Alex Shinn <alexshinn@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Andy Wingo <wingo@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Per Bothner <per@x>
- Re: [Scheme-reports] [wg2] in support of single-arity procedural syntax transformers
  - From: Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>

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