Re: Suggestion: ephemeron-case Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 03 Aug 2025 15:30 UTC

PS And maybe give a simple example of how a user would typically use it.

Am So., 3. Aug. 2025 um 17:29 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
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> Maybe I don't understand the semantics of your ephemeron-case form.
> Reading your first post, there does not seem to be a reference barrier
> on the key in the broken path. Can you give a syntax-case definition
> of ephemeron case?
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> Am So., 3. Aug. 2025 um 11:38 Uhr schrieb Daphne Preston-Kendal
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> > > Am So., 16. März 2025 um 14:19 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
> > > <xxxxxx@gmail.com>:
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> > >> I just noticed that I missed sending the following post to the mailing list.
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> > >> @Daphne: Does it answer your questions about how to use SRFI 254 and why the proposed `ephemeron-case` would be useless?
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> > >> Marc
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> > I don’t understand how this code demonstrates that ephemeron-case isn’t needed – it could be reformulated in terms of it – but I also don’t think that finalization should be held up by my lack of understanding :-)
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> > If ephemeron-case is useful, we can continue arguing about it post-finalization and add it to R7-large without a SRFI. It is syntactic sugar, after all.
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> > Daphne
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