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Matthias Felleisen <matthias@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The question is not whether this is a procedure call (believe me I know some > Scheme) Believe me I know. I was unsure what you meant by your question. > From the other remarks in your response, it seems you don't mean > procedure call at all but something that looks like a procedure call > but only for some small set of procedures (car, cdr, string-ref). No. I mean it for any procedure call where the procedure has a defined setter. > At least you didn't bring address-of calculations from C. I know I'm not the Scheme insider you are, but was that really called for? > Also, there are Schemes out there that implement define-syntax. Yes, I've implemented one of them. > It seems to me > that what you want to add can be implemented in define-syntax, Well, sort of. You need a way to access the builtin R5RS version of set!. Also, I wasn't sure that ((setter proc) arg ... value) was a valid template, but re-checking R5RS seems to show that it is. Anyway, I think my previous message gives a define-syntax definition. I agree it should be added to the SRFI. > posted with a test suite. Others have done something like this. Most of them have not provided a testsuite. > Would it be too much to ask for a R5RS-style specification of SRFI's that > extend/modify Scheme's core syntax and semantics? It would also be nice to have specification of Scheme. R5RS makes a lot of things underspecified, most glaringly macro expansion. -- --Per Bothner per@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bothner.com/~per/