David Rush  <kumo@bellsouth.net> wrote:
+---------------
| And FWIW, Scheme48 and PLT both eval the foo and leave an ' token
| pending in the reader input after typing a bare foo'.
+---------------

Which is why you're misinterpreting what PLT (at least) is doing with:

	(define foo' 'bar)

What "eval" is *really* seeing here is:

	(define foo (quote (quote bar)))

So there is actually no such variable as foo' at all.


-Rob

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