Matthias Buelow  <mkb@incubus.de> wrote:
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| I wrote:
| > The above macro could hypothetically be replaced by a function if...
| 
| One additional note, if you use this variant, you don't have access to
| lexical variables in outer forms, which would complicate the whole
| thing. I can't see any practical way how this particular construct
| could be done without a macro.
+---------------

Well, if instead of using (QUOTE form) to wrap argument forms you
used (LAMBDA () form), that would give you [selective] access in
the called function to lexical variables in the calling function.
That used to be done all the time in Scheme before R5RS macros
appeared.


-Rob

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