On 8/26/05, Michael Sperber <xxxxxx@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
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> Alex Shinn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> writes:
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> > So why is this a macro?
>
> To enable a modest amount of static checking.

1) By the same reasoning we should define string-append as a macro
which only accepts string literals.  However in this case

2) We can't perform type checking anyway since by definition
FILE-OPTIONS is required to ignore any flags it doesn't understand.

I think you need a really good reason to specify something as syntax,
and in this case there doesn't seem to be any reason.

--
Alex