l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> Unfortunately, preserving the macro keyword breaks one of Oleg
>> Kiselyov's macros, namely 'ppat' in system/base/pmatch.scm:
>
> [...]
>
>> Oleg's macro uses '_' in the keyword position of the pattern, even
>> though '_' is in the literals list. Therefore, it fails to match
>> because 'ppat' does not match that literal.
>
> I would call it a bug in ‘ppat’. However, the real question is how
> frequent that “bug” is. If people have come to rely on the current
> behavior, then it may be more reasonable to stick to it.
I tend to agree that it's arguably a bug in 'ppat'. I could go either
way on this, so I'll leave it up to you and Andy.
>> Among other things,
>
> What were the other things? :-)
Well, anything that uses pmatch will fail. I'm not aware of any other
problems.
Mark
