From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, syncase-in-boot-9, updated. e3c5df539640a36eb1493f581087d54a4714f337 Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:51:39 +0100 Message-ID: <877hzr4t9g.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <8763fip2sf.fsf@gnu.org> <87prdm1cyd.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244167497 15486 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2009 02:04:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 02:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 04:04:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCOnc-00079y-T4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:04:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCOnb-00041M-Af for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCMRL-0008Ak-O0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCMR7-00080j-Tc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48121 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCMR6-0007rB-TU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:44325) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCJuY-0001P6-52; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:51:42 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136121F9C35; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:51:41 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6303801F; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:51:40 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu\, 04 Jun 2009 21\:16\:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8616 Archived-At: Andy Wingo 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