Re: [Chicken-users] Syntax of case expressions

[Elf]

id consider it a bug with the reader fighting with the macroexpander for 
unpredictable dominance of the universe.

-elf


On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ivan Raikov wrote:

>  Well, R5RS does not specify what happens in the second case, so you
> can consider it a feature :-)
>
>
> Matt Gushee <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Wait a minute, though. I understand now why
> >
> >   (('a) ...)
> >
> > didn't match, but how is it that
> >
> >   ('a ...)
> >
> > isn't a syntax error? Is it because 'a expands to (quote a), and is
> > thus treated by case as a list of the symbols quote and a? And if so,
> > is that correct behavior? After all,
> >
> > csi> (pair? 'a)
> > #f
> >
> > (as I expected).
>
>
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