Re: [Chicken-hackers] Bug shadowing syntactic keyword

[John Cowan]

Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit:

> But if we try "begin" as the formal, it fails interestingly:
> ((lambda (begin) (begin 1 2 3)) (lambda args args))
>   => ((1 2 3))
> 
> And if we try "define" as the formal, we get a spinning infinite loop of
> some kind:
> ((lambda (define) (define 1 2 3)) (lambda args args))
>   => never returns

Yes.  In effect, the primitive syntax indicators of R5RS are reserved
words in Chicken 3.  Chicken 4 does not have this bug, and it is
overridden if you load any of the macro packages into Chicken 3.

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