On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:25:23AM -0400, Sam TH wrote:
> The macro system usually referred to as 'syntax-case' doesn't rely on
> the syntax-case macro.  In particular, only one additional primitive
> function and one simple primitive form [1] not provided in the R6RS
> are needed to implement the `syntax-case' as a library.

I didn't know that was the case, but I'm sure even this needs a way
to register syntax transformers which can receive the form with added
environment information.  This should be standardized, so syntax
transformer libraries are possible in the first place.

Cheers,
Peter
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