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From: Aaron VanDevender <sig@netdot.net>
Subject: case syntax and symbols
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:57:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111445850.6034.15.camel@vandvndr.physics.uiuc.edu> (raw)

Hello,

I have noticed that guile evaluates the following to #t

(case 'x
  ('x #t)
  (else #f))

even though R5RS section 4.2.1 seems to say that all of the statements
(besides else) must be of the form ((datum ...) ...). Clearly the symbol
'x is not a list. What is going on here? Is this an agreed upon, but not
specified syntax? Scheme48 also evaluates this to #t.

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             reply	other threads:[~2005-03-21 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-21 22:57 Aaron VanDevender [this message]
2005-03-22  0:53 ` case syntax and symbols Marius Vollmer
2005-03-22  7:21   ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-22 17:41     ` Marius Vollmer
2005-05-23  1:58       ` Kevin Ryde
2005-06-06 19:21         ` Marius Vollmer
2005-05-23 18:39       ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-24 11:39         ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-05-24 18:01           ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-26 10:53             ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-05-26 18:30               ` Neil Jerram
2005-06-06 19:26           ` Marius Vollmer
2005-06-06 19:23         ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-22  9:17   ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-03-22 13:23     ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-22 15:28       ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-03-22 16:28         ` Marius Vollmer

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