This is not quite a bug report but an enhancement suggestion.
ice-9/syncase.scm provides a procedure datum->syntax-object that insists that its first argument be a syntax-object that is an identifier. This is an unnecessary restriction, and removing this check makes writing low-level macros easier, because you can give a syntax-object directly as datum->syntax-object's first argument, instead of destructuring it to get an appropriate identifier. The latter is a tedious process that doesn't buy anything, since the containing syntax-object and the contained identifier have the same syntax properties as far as datum->syntax-object is concerned. To effect this change, you need to modify ice-9/psyntax.ss as follows: (set! datum->syntax-object (lambda (id datum) (arg-check nonsymbol-id? id 'datum->syntax-object) (make-syntax-object datum (syntax-object-wrap id)))) becomes (set! datum->syntax-object (lambda (id datum) (make-syntax-object datum (syntax-object-wrap id)))) Then regenerate psyntax.pp. Sincerely, --Dorai Sitaram _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile