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Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:

> [guile1.8]$ grep -ir define-syntax-rule .
>
> (empty)
>
> I  need something that works in GUILE 1.8 too.

Guile 1.8 has syntax-rules after you include (ice-9 syncase).
(define-syntax-rule foo ...) is just syntactic sugar for (define-syntax
foo (syntax-rules () ...); see the manual.

Combined with cond-expand, maybe that could work?

janneke

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