[Snow-users-list] define-syntax*

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Mar 9 08:18:52 EST 2007


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On 4-Mar-07, at 9:05 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> I am playing with the idea of adding define-syntax* to
> the Snow specification.  I have a prototype of this in my working
> copy of the generic Snow.  A quick experiment indicates that all of
> the currently supported Scheme systems except Gambit, Guile and SCM
> support define-syntax.  Out of the major Scheme systems not yet
> supported by Snow, I expect Kawa, Larceny, MIT-Scheme and SISC to
> also support define-syntax, but not RScheme and Stalin.  Finally, I
> expect most of the lesser Schemes will not support define-syntax at
> all (e.g. EdScheme, Elk, JScheme, LispMe, SIOD, TinyScheme, to name a
> few).
>
> So it boils down to a portability issue.  If Snow adds support for
> define-syntax, then packages that use it will not be portable to many
> Scheme systems.  Should we care?

I think we should add define-syntax* to the Snow spec.  Any one opposed?

Marc

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