On Sep 13, 2009, at 9:19 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> Andre van Tonder scripsit:
>
>> Are you aware of any advantages in expressiveness of the two-pass
>> that cannot be reproduced by rearrangement?  I vaguely remember
>> that there may have been an example posted once to this list during
>> R6RS, but I cannot remember it.
>
> Well, I often insert executable subheaders like (display "Defining the
> foo functions") into my source so I can watch the program load.  I #;
> these out before deployment, of course.  This may be a trivial use,
> but it's real.

Interleaving expressions and definitions has absolutely nothing
to do with one-pass vs. two-pass (which is what we're trying to
discuss here).

Aziz,,,

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