[plt-scheme] apply syntactically bound (was RE: [plt-bug] all/10959: namespace-variable-valuecannot find 'apply' in base-namespace)

I just learned that in #lang racket version 5.0.0.1 symbol 'apply' is
syntactically bound. In an uncorrupted base-namespace it has no variable
binding.
See http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=10959
Jos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: carl.eastlund at gmail.com [mailto:carl.eastlund at gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Carl Eastlund
> Sent: 04 June 2010 18:14
> To: Jos Koot
> Cc: Matthew Flatt; plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] apply syntactically bound (was RE: [plt-bug]
> all/10959: namespace-variable-valuecannot find 'apply' in base-namespace)
> 
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jos Koot <jos.koot at telefonica.net> wrote:
> > Strange:
> >
> >
> >
> > #lang racket ; version 5.0.0.1
> >
> > (define x '(1 2 3))
> >
> > (apply apply list (list x)) ; -> (1 2 3)
> >
> >
> >
> > where apply seems to accept the syntactically bound keyword apply,
> although
> > the docs say that apply should have the value of a procedure. This
> confuses
> > me.
> >
> > Thanks, Jos
> 
> Jos, apply is a procedure, not a macro, so there is no problem with
> passing it to itself.
> 
> --Carl