[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Reduce over-specification as well as under-specification.

From: Andre van Tonder <andre>
Date: Thu Nov 16 12:53:52 2006

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, David Van Horn wrote:

> Andre van Tonder wrote:
>>
>> I believe offhand it is supposed to work in r5rs, but you will probably
>> be able to find someone who disagrees with that, and they may be right.
>
> No, it is not allowed in R5RS since the RHS of the let-syntax binding must be
> a transformer spec, and a transformer spec is defined as an instance of
> syntax-rules.

Sorry, yes. That was an obvious mistake on my part. I withdraw my
comment in reponse to Felix's post. I now agree that Felix's statement
supporting Will Clinger's original assertion was correct.

Andre
Received on Thu Nov 16 2006 - 12:53:16 UTC