Having this supported in define-public but not in define seems like an inconsistency:
dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ guile GNU Guile 2.0.5-deb+1-1 Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details. Enter `,help' for help. scheme@(guile-user)> (define-public ((x a) b) a) scheme@(guile-user)> (define ((x a) b) a) While compiling expression: ERROR: Syntax error: unknown file:2:0: source expression failed to match any pattern in form (define ((x a) b) a) scheme@(guile-user)> The Scheme report does not mention this explicitly, but it would appear as a recursive application of the rule (define (a b) ...) -> (define a (lambda (b) ...)) leading first to (define (x a) (lambda (b) a)) and thence to (define x (lambda (a) (lambda (b) a))) And if it is not supposed to be supported, why is it supported with define-public? -- David Kastrup
