[plt-scheme] Re: a few questions (was: Scheme questions?)

On Dec  4, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> On 12/4/05, Gregory Woodhouse <gregory.woodhouse at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > (LABELS ((L1 (LAMBDA ()
> >                         (IF B1 (L2)
> >                             (BLOCK S1
> >                                    (IF B2 (L2)
> >                                        (BLOCK S2 (L1))))))))
> >            (L2 (LAMBDA () S3))
> >            (L1))
> >
> > Is LABELS a special form in some version of scheme, or something
> > bound by an enclosing let? Something else?
> 
> If I recall correctly, LABELS is an old form of letrec.

And still part of Common Lisp.  It's like a letrec for functions,
needed since functions are on a seperate namespace in CL.

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