Re: [Chicken-users] Syntax of case expressions

[Matt Gushee]

Ivan Raikov wrote:
>   Remember that in Scheme, (define foo 'a) is a shortcut for 
> (define (define foo (quote a)))

Well, I can't remember that because I never learned it! And I'm not sure 
I understand it now ... have to ponder a bit.

 -- 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).

Okay, that part makes sense.

 Your first
> example should actually be: 
>
> (case foo
>   ((a) 1)
>   (else 2))
>
> Chicken works as expected with that code. 

Whoops! So it does. Thanks for the correction.

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