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Re: How many arguments to a macro transformer? Keith Wright (23 Jul 2005 06:15 UTC)
Re: How many arguments to a macro transformer? Andre van Tonder (23 Jul 2005 14:21 UTC)
Re: How many arguments to a macro transformer? Keith Wright 23 Jul 2005 06:14 UTC 
Oops!  I said:

> On the other hand, it seems more consistant if
>
>  (define-syntax (swap! a b) <body)
>
> were the same as
>
>  (define-syntax swap! (lambda ( _ a b) <body> ))
>
> which implies that swap! is right and the rest of
> the program is wrong.

I just noticed that this is a change you made in
the last revision, and that consistency also implies
that syntax-case is wrong.  I've always felt slightly
nauseous when I thought about syntax-case, and now
I know a good reason for it.  I suppose the syntax-case
users are not eager to remove the parentheses around
their <formals>?  Please?  Oh well.

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