I changed the wording from:

___ is provided as an alias for ... when it is inconvenient to use the
ellipsis (as in a syntax-rules template).

to

___ is provided for when it is inconvenient to use the ellipsis (as in
a syntax-rules template).

On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 12:23 PM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
<xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:
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> In the current draft, it says:
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> "___ is provided as an alias for ... when it is inconvenient to use the ellipsis (as in a syntax-rules template)."
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> It is not clear what is meant by "alias" here.  There is a definition of what it means to be an alias in SRFI 212, but this is exactly not what we want here. A SRFI 212 aliasing identifier has the same binding as the aliased identifier.
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> For the purposes of why "___" has been introduced in the first place, it is important that "___" and "..." are not bound to the same syntax transformer.
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> So I would drop the word "alias" altogether.
>