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> >I think this is redundant. most compilers probably provide _some_ way > >to treat a keyword as a special form if possible, and treat it as a > >variable reference otherwise. > > Good point. I followed the discussion, and now I am again leaning towards making error an ordinary procedure. An additional point I think is worth making is that only having a source location isn't that useful anyway, especially when code is written using lots of higher order functions. More useful would be a full stack trace. But for that, special machinery is needed anyhow, and making error a special form doesn't help much. > > > you certainly can do such a thing using syntax-case, for instance. > > > This might be a stupid question, but how does it (syntax-case) > does that? It appears to me that this is not possible. It depends on what happens when a macro is encountered in non-function position, and R5RS is a bit vague on this point. Stephan