Re: [Chicken-users] quasiquote, unquote-splicing and cons cells

[John Cowan]

Hans Bulfone scripsit:

> this is exactly how i hoped it to be, but the question is if this
> is actually allowed or if it just works "accidentally".

It is indeed valid to have a lambda-list that is just an identifier,
in which case that identifier is bound to a list of all the arguments.
See the second bullet point in R5RS 4.1.4 at
http://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-7.html#%_sec_4.1.4

Another way to think of it is that "r", considered as a list, has a tail
but no head.

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