Re: [Chicken-users] Syntax of case expressions

[Matt Gushee]

Matt Gushee wrote:

> isn't a syntax error? Is it because 'a expands to (quote a), and is thus 
> treated by case as a list of the symbols quote and a? And if so, is that 
> correct behavior? After all,
>
> csi> (pair? 'a)
> #f
>
> (as I expected).

[with apologies for replying to myself]

Oh, wait:

csi> (pair? ''a)
#t

Aha! I think I'm starting to understand this quoting stuff.

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