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Re: [Scheme-reports] Rebinding syntactic keywords as variables



Andre van Tonder scripsit:
> 5.2.1. Toplevel definitions, on p. 19, does not specify what happens
> when we encounter
> 
>    (define foo 1)
> 
> if FOO has already been previously bound to a transformer by a syntax 
> definition.  And vice versa for par. 5.3.

There is a ticket for this.  I'm proposing that this be permitted, but
that existing uses of the syntax keyword in previously defined procedures
aren't affected.  This is the behavior of all known R5RS Schemes except SCM.

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