Re: [[email protected]: Re: [[email protected]: bug in psyntax?]]

Matthias Radestock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sisc.devel
Organization LShift Ltd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I brought this up at the informal implementors workshop several years back
> (1998), and there was general agreement that R5RS has it wrong.  If you
> want to adhere to the R5RS version, however, it should be sufficient to to
> remove the local-syntax-case from chi-top, chi-external, and chi-internal,
> and modify chi-local-syntax to call chi-body.
> 
> Kent

I can certainly see why the current behaviour is useful and more general 
than that specified by R5RS, so it would be silly to remove it.

However, it would be nice to have a config parameter that allows us to 
toggle strict R5RS compliance in this area.


Matthias.



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