--- This message is a formal comment which was submitted to formal-comment_at_r6rs.org, following the requirements described at: http://www.r6rs.org/process.html --- Name : Andre van Tonder Email : andre at het.brown.edu Type : defect Priority : medium Component : Formal semantics Version : 5.92 Pages : 61 and on Dependencies: None Summary: -------- DEFINE and BEGIN^F have no place in the formal semantics, needlessly complicate the latter, and should be removed. Description: ------------ According to the description of the expansion process in chapter 8, a fully expanded Scheme program will not contain any occurrences of DEFINE or BEGIN^F, /not even at program or library toplevel/. For this reason, including these as primitives in the formal semantics does not add any value to the formal semantics. It just needlessly complicates and bloats it (a lot). Suggestion: ----------- Remove DEFINE and BEGIN^F from formal semantics.Received on Wed Mar 14 2007 - 18:38:15 UTC
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