Re: [Scheme-reports] 4.2.2. binding constructs
Aaron W. Hsu 20 May 2011 02:29 UTC
On Thu, 19 May 2011 17:29:26 -0400, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu 19 May 2011 19:18, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> writes:
>
>>> Perhaps also there should be clarity
>>> regarding the validity of the following program:
>>>
>>> (let* ((x 1)
>>> (x (+ x 1)))
>>> x)
>>
>> It's fairly silly, but not illegal.
>
> Right, but the language for `let' says that all identifiers should be
> distinct, and the language for `let*' simply says that it's like `let'
> but in-order. Not a major point, and it could go unmentioned, but it is
> ambiguous language.
Filed ticket #187.
Aaron W. Hsu
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