[r6rs-discuss] Import choices: flexibility vs. discoverability

[John Cowan]

Per Bothner scripsit:

> OTOH, it would be nice to allow define in the middle of a body, to avoid
> having to add too much "let-nesting":
> 
> (define (foo)
>    (define t1 ....)
>    (bar t1)
>    (define t2 (baz t1))
>    (whatever t1 t2))

That would be a pretty big change, from LETREC* semantics to LET*
semantics, or are you still allowed the limited kind of forward reference
that internal DEFINE currently allows?  If so, I think the scope would
be hard to understand.

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