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Re: [Scheme-reports] ANN: first draft of R7RS small language available Andy Wingo (29 Apr 2011 14:07 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] DELAY AND FORCE Andre van Tonder (23 Apr 2011 22:20 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] Regions of imports unspecified Andre van Tonder (23 Apr 2011 22:31 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Regions of imports unspecified John Cowan (23 Apr 2011 22:43 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Regions of imports unspecified Alex Shinn (24 Apr 2011 01:59 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] What are regions of toplevel imports? Andre van Tonder (23 Apr 2011 23:41 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] Internal syntax definition order problem Andre van Tonder (23 Apr 2011 22:39 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] Mutable exports Andre van Tonder (23 Apr 2011 22:48 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Mutable exports Alex Shinn (24 Apr 2011 02:00 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] Internal definition shadowing problems Andre van Tonder (23 Apr 2011 23:19 UTC)
[Scheme-reports] Importing identifier more than once Andre van Tonder (23 Apr 2011 23:37 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] ANN: first draft of R7RS small language available Andy Wingo 29 Apr 2011 14:06 UTC 
On Fri 29 Apr 2011 15:33, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> writes:

> Andy Wingo wrote:
>> I don't know.  Like most of you, I've been programming scheme for a
>> while, but the implications of lexical scope on keywords and modules
>> have not even crossed my mind until an R6RS user reported a bug in our
>> R6RS implementation, to this effect.
>
> Folks, why do we at all match keywords (e.g. "else") lexically instead
> of textually?

What do you mean by "lexically" and by "textually" here?

Andy
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