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

[Andy Wingo <wingo@x>]

On Tue 03 May 2011 14:52, Andre van Tonder <andre@x> writes:

>     (let ((else #f))
>       (cond (else (display "else clause matched"))))
>
> should be equivalent to
>
>     (let ((x #f))
>       (cond (x (display "else clause matched"))))

Playing devil's advocate here... what about this one?

    (let ((else #f))
      (quote else))

I think Andrzej's argument is that cond treats `else' not as an
identifier but as a datum, as `quote' does.

FWIW, I don't know what I think on this matter.

Andy
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