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Re: unquote in quasisyntax
On 02/06/2012 12:48 PM, Jamison Hope wrote:
Another incompatibility/shortcoming when compared to R6RS/Dybvig is that
Kawa can't handle a syntax-case pattern that isn't a list with the macro
name in the first car.
It most certainly can - there are a number of examples - for example
kawa/lib/syntax.scm.
What Kawa can't handle is the use of *square* brackets in definitions.
I think that could actually be fixed, without conflicting with Kawa's use
of square brackets for vector constructors, since Rackets and R6RS
use square brackets mainly for "clauses" in definitions.
I did an experiment, changing let in std_syntax.scm to:
(define-syntax let
(syntax-rules ($bracket-apply$)
((let ([var . rest] ...) . body)
(%let ((var . rest) ...) . body))
... as before ...
At which point this works:
(let ([x 10] [y 12]) [y x])
The above fix isn't really satisfactory, since it only works
if all or none of the clauses use brackets. Worse, it somehow
fails while compiling list-tail in lists.scm; I don't know why.
Tweaking kawa/standard/let.java instead fixes both problems, FWIW,
though using macros would be cleaner.
I'll accept patches to accept square brackets in appropriate "clauses".
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