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Re: [Chicken-users] Bug report: low-level macros vs. variables in csi


From: Graham Fawcett
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Bug report: low-level macros vs. variables in csi
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:33:49 -0400

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>  Proposed course of action: have the interpreter check whether an
>  identifier is the name of a macro and signal an error rather than using
>  any existing definition.

You mean, upon every expression evaluation, or just when (set!
macro-name ...) is evaluated?

For symmetry, should it also raise an error if you try to define a
macro with the same name as an existing identifier? "First system to
claim the name wins"?

Graham




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