On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 04:23:26PM +0200, Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-hackers 
wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> jcroisant reminded us of a pending patch on the bugtracker (#1770),
> which apparently was forgotten. I'm not quite sure how this could
> linger along for such a long time, but once-only-expansion was
> always a somewhat brittle transformation as the interpreter and
> compiler handle special forms a bit differently and there often
> appear undocumented intermediate special forms. Nevertheless,
> this functionality is useful for debugging and has been requested
> often enough in the past.

Thanks folks!

One question: what's with the optional undocumented arguments?  I notice
these are copy/pasted from "expand".  Should we keep them?  A quick grep
didn't turn up anywhere these are being used but I could've missed
something.

Cheers,
Peter

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