On 2020/02/04 08:56:49, hanwenn wrote:
> On 2020/02/03 12:11:08, dak wrote:
> > > What is wrong with the code I propose in this change?
> > 
> > You mean define-syntax?  I'd like to avoid it for now since people
have no way
> > of getting acquainted with it, and most new developers have never
worked with
> > Scheme before.
> 
> I don't understand this argument. If we have no new developers that
know Scheme,
> they wouldn't know what to do with defmacro either? Am I missing
something?

defmacro works in user documents.  define-syntax doesn't.  That gives
people a way to get acquainted with defmacro that doesn't exist yet for
define-syntax .

> I didn't know about define-syntax before writing this patch, and I
learned by 
> googling around for it.



https://codereview.appspot.com/553480044/

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