Re: proposals for R5RS (sorry)

["R. Kent Dybvig" <dyb@cs.indiana.edu>]

> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 10:12:20 EDT
> From: Guy Steele <gls@Think.COM>

>    Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 20:33:46 -0500
>    From: "R. Kent Dybvig" <dyb@cs.indiana.edu>
>    ...
>    We can't use the same keyword for both lambda and quote, since there is
>    no way in general to know which is intended.  ...

> Sure, we can, because "quote" should have one following subform,
> whereas "lambda" should have two.  (But it's a bad idea for other
> reasons, of course.)

Yes, of course.  Aubrey Jaffer pointed this out to me as well.  So
one of my arguments falls flat.  (I still prefer to use ... for the
escape, however.)

Maybe this would be a good time to suggest an alternative name for
named let?

Kent