Re: [Chicken-users] Syntax of case expressions

[Ivan Raikov]

  Oops, I meant that (define foo 'a) -> (define foo (quote a)).

    -Ivan

Ivan Raikov <address@hidden> writes:

>   Remember that in Scheme, (define foo 'a) is a shortcut for 
> (define (define foo (quote a))) -- quote is a special form, and not
> a part of the literal. So you in your case statement you are not
> matching the symbol a, you are actually matching the symbol 'a (the
> apostrophe is treated as a literal in the case statement). Your first
> example should actually be: 
>
> (case foo
>   ((a) 1)
>   (else 2))
>
> Chicken works as expected with that code. 
>
>   -Ivan