[r6rs-discuss] Comments on syntax-rules

[Michael Sperber]

David Van Horn <dvanhorn at cs.brandeis.edu> writes:

> A few notes and questions on syntax-rules:

I can only answer one of your bullets:

> 3) Why not cut the specification of syntax-rules, which is later
> subsumed and partly duplicated by the specification of syntax-case,
> and simply replace the current specification with its definition in
> terms of syntax-case?

This is to avoid creating a forward dependency between the two.  Also,
many people (like myself) regard `syntax-rules' as simpler to use, and
have trouble dealing with `syntax-case'.  We don't want to require
them to understand the much more complicated specification of
`syntax-case' just to be able to use `syntax-rules'.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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