It's supposed to be safe; the behavior in this example is definitely a
bug.

The `#%variable-reference` form used to work only on top-level and
module variables. It seems that I forgot to fill in some pieces when I
made `#%variable-reference` work on local bindings (several years ago,
mainly for use with `variable-reference-constant?` in the expansion of
certain keyword-function forms).

Thanks for the report!

At Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:31:52 -0500, Jon Zeppieri wrote:
> I'm not sure if #%variable-reference is supposed to be unsafe or not
> (it's not mentioned in the documentation), but it looks like an
> attempt to get the location of an identifier that is neither top-level
> nor module-level results in a hard crash:
> 
> ===
> #lang racket/base
> 
> (define (go)
>   (define foo 3)
>   (#%variable-reference foo))
> 
> (go)
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