From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, syncase-in-boot-9, updated. e3c5df539640a36eb1493f581087d54a4714f337
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:51:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hzr4t9g.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k53rdd3b.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu\, 04 Jun 2009 21\:16\:08 +0200")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>> (1) Doesn't #'x => (syntax x) need to apply only in the lexical RHS of
>> a syntax-case syntax transformer? Perhaps then we could implement
>> this meaning of #'x only in this limited scope, and retain the older
>> meaning in other scopes?
>
> Yes, although you can't determine that before macroexpansion, so it's
> akin to `unquote' outside of `quasiquote'.
Fair enough, I thought that might be the case.
>> (2) We should of course mention the removal of the old #' in NEWS, and
>> as part of that entry it would be good to say in detail how "It would
>> be easy for an affected reader to add this particular extension
>> back". (Which I assume just means providing the necessary
>> (read-hash-extend ...) incantation.)
>
> Yes. I'll get on the NEWS this weekend.
Great!
Regards,
Neil
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2009-05-30 23:52 ` [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, syncase-in-boot-9, updated. e3c5df539640a36eb1493f581087d54a4714f337 Ludovic Courtès
2009-05-31 12:14 ` Andy Wingo
2009-06-02 22:35 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-04 19:16 ` Andy Wingo
2009-06-04 20:51 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
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