[R6RS] Core/library split: `syntax-rules'
Anton van Straaten
anton at appsolutions.com
Wed Aug 2 13:33:13 EDT 2006
> Shouldn't we have `syntax-rules' in the core?
Since there are already two essentially independent macro systems in
R6RS, and since implementations provide other systems, I didn't think
any single system should be imposed at that level.
This perhaps relates to an issue which I don't think we've settled yet:
the original core/library split proposal proposed three sets of library
combinations (r6rs-small, r6rs, and r6rs-big). I would expect all of
those to contain a macro system: I proposed syntax-rules in r6rs-small,
and both syntax-rules and syntax-case in the other two.
Anton
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