Re: define (resend) (long) (short)

[Kent Dybvig <dyb%indiana.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>]

It is too much to ask everyone who has learned to use "define" the
way we know and love it here to switch to either a new word or a
new meaning for internal definitions.  We feel that we have given it
our best shot over the past year, having tried both "define!" and
"global-define".  What it boils down to is that (1) the same name
should be used inside as out to define global variables and (2) the
right name is define.

You mentioned the possibility of omitting internal define altogether.
We would be satisfied with that.  The report should say something to
the effect of portable code should only use the define/set! form (or
appropriate sugaring).  This seems to be the only viable solution.