[r6rs-discuss] On naming the next scheme(s) [was scheme-reports.org]

[Eli Barzilay]

On Aug 25, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:25:23AM -0400, Sam TH wrote:
> > The macro system usually referred to as 'syntax-case' doesn't rely
> > on the syntax-case macro.  In particular, only one additional
> > primitive function and one simple primitive form [1] not provided
> > in the R6RS are needed to implement the `syntax-case' as a
> > library.
> 
> I didn't know that was the case, but I'm sure even this needs a way
> to register syntax transformers which can receive the form with
> added environment information.  This should be standardized, so
> syntax transformer libraries are possible in the first place.

`define-syntax' does that.

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