Re: [Chicken-users] define-syntax available *by default*?

[felix winkelmann]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:16:41 +0100, Tony Garnock-Jones
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Would it cause a lot of pain to switch on the standard syntax-rules (and
> possibly also syntax-case) macro systems by default in csi and csc?
> 
> I find myself wanting to use syntax-rules/syntax-case more often than
> plain-old-lisp-macros these days; considering also that a compatibility
> "define-macro" form can be defined in terms of syntax-case, it seems
> that little would be lost by making the switch.
> 

Hm... This is haunting me... ;-)

It would probably be a good idea to make the switch (as you suggest). 
It'll break many things, it will surprise many users, etc.
Yet, it is probably ther cleaner solution. I dunno...

Please give me some days to think about it (I'm currently traveling,
so I'm not able to commit any changes in te next days).


cheers,
felix