I claimed:
> > I still think we ought to map "EMPTY $ RHS" to "(RHS)".  It's useful for
> > single-variable "let" and Scheme "do" loops.  Since we don't even *allow* it
> > right now, it's even backward-compatible :-).

Alan Manuel Gloria:
> Precisely why I didn't allow it: I wasn't certain what semantics would
> be best for such a case, and I didn't have much time to think about
> it.  So the error is more like "reserved for future use" than an
> actual error.

Makes sense.  It's only after playing with "$" that I've become convinced of 
what its semantics *should* be... and that it's odd that it's missing.

> If my thinking is right then this case simply requires calling into
> readblock-clean, making a list out of its return value, then consing a
> split-tag to its front (so that the outer clean doesn't unwrap the list).

I haven't looked at it deeply, but that sounds right.  I wonder if that code 
can be simplified further.

> Lemme see what I can hack on this week.

That'd be awesome.

--- David A. Wheeler


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