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Re: land* for guile



> in the new srfis I've seen a new syntax form called land* , which
> seems to be a hybrid between let* & and. [...] What would be the
> preferrable way to write a land* module for guile?


Yeah, I like land* a lot, although I wouldn't mind a better name.  I
posted some comments to the SRFI.

I think the best implementation would be as a macro which is smart
about the code it generates, expanding to a series of lets and ifs.
I don't think the performance would be too bad.