On 2 Dec 2023, at 22:28, Daphne Preston-Kendal <d...@nonceword.org> wrote:

> Guile ‘fixes letrec*’ and supports the SRFI. I’m not sure what else you want.
> 
>> On 2 Dec 2023, at 21:42, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <marc.nie...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
> 
>> As the proposed change is pervasive (a "body" is ubiquitous in Scheme), it 
>> is essential to get this right.  The R6RS semantics is slightly more 
>> conservative and restrictive, and it is better to err on the safe side.

Moreover, the change makes nothing worse than it already was; bodies which 
don’t have any expressions before definitions are just as efficient as they 
were in R6RS.


Daphne

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