xxxxxx@pobox.com wrote:

> The more I write about this the more I wonder why I have put that
> phrase about erroneous #,() forms in the first place. I really don't
> want to get into reading exceptions, syntax error reporting and all
> that.

You should.  There is no good justification whatsoever for further
propagating the shameful state of Scheme's error reporting semantics.

'shriram