> Ah, and I though that syntax-rules was always written in term of
> syntax-case.  I see.  Thank you!


Yeah, it most most often is these days, but historically, syntax-rules was 
invented before syntax-case. IIRC, the choice to include syntax-case in R6RS 
was controversial because syntax-rules was expressed in terms of different 
low-level abstractions in some Scheme implementations ("explicit substitutions" 
or something like that).

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