Summary

Keep R5RS syntax-rules?

Metadata

• Id: 5893519e3dcd0025bb589805ebb70f8d04e121b1
• Trac id: 1828
• Type: task
• Reporter: felix
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: new
• Component: expander
• Estimated difficulty: easy
• Resolution:
• Priority: major
• Milestone: 6.0.0
• Version: 5.3.0
• Changetime: 2023-11-06 23:22:26 UTC
• Created: 2023-11-06 23:22:26 UTC
• Keywords: syntax-rules

Description

For C6, syntax-rules has been changed to comply with R7RS. We could keep the old semantics as a separate export, since it can parameterized via an additional argument to make-transformer (as suggested by sjamaan). Since the default environmnet is still R5RS, providing R5RS syntax-rules by default seems to me to risk confusion, so I'm inclined to default to R7RS.