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Re: Bad define placement?

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.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
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