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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: λ the ultimate showcase
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:27:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hw638iu.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5uest8f.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Thu\, 10 Sep 2009 17\:40\:48 +0200")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hey,
>
> Now that we have Unicode, let’s not put it to good use!
>
>   (define-syntax λ
>     (syntax-rules ()
>       ((_ formals body ...)
>        (lambda formals body ...))))

Can it be overridden?  Just in case someone writes an algorithm where
they'd really like to have λ as a variable?

(In other words, I guess, can define-syntax things in general be
overridden?)

> Should ‘boot-9.scm’ provide this macro?

If the answer to the above is Yes, definitely.

     Neil




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-10 15:40 λ the ultimate showcase Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-10 17:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-10 19:27 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-09-10 21:46   ` Ludovic Courtès

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