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Re: unquote in quasisyntax
- From: Helmut Eller <eller dot helmut at gmail dot com>
- To: kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:32:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: unquote in quasisyntax
- References: <4F2F8D6C.8090608@bothner.com>
* Per Bothner [2012-02-06 08:21] writes:
> I just realized we have a slight compatibility problem.
>
> Kawa has long supported (quasisyntax FORM) and the abbreviation #`FORM.
> To unquote, you would use (unquote FORM) or the abbreviation ,FORM.
> This is consistent with SRFI-72, but it is not consistent with most
> syntax-case implementations, including R6RS and Racket (MzScheme).
> These instead use (unsyntax FORM) or #,FORM.
It seems that datum->syntax-object and syntax-object->datum is only used
in SRFI-72. Everybody else (R6RS, Racket, Chez) seems to use
datum->syntax and syntax->datum. Shouldn't Kawa use the shorter names
or provide aliases?
Helmut