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Re: Bad define placement?
Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@linux.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:
>
> > `begin' is a derived expression type based on `lambda'.
> > -> http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r5rs_toc.html
>
> Actually not. Section 7.3 "Derived expression types" gives two
> alternative macro definitions for "begin". But "In any case, note
> that these rules apply only if the body of the `begin' contains no
> definitions". So those macro definitions are useless and misleading.
Oops, sorry. I thought that begin can always be rewritten into a lambda.
Jost