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Tom Lord [on variant syntaxes and gnu extension language]:

   Syntaxes other than Scheme are just ordinary extensions.

but so is scheme syntax itself. adam shah's architecture does not mention
the fact that most of the scheme syntax is an "extension" on top of a simpler
core language containing not much more than symbols, constants, quote,
define, lambda, begin, if, set!, prim, proc etc.

oz
