[racket] syntax-local-value of define-syntax-class

You've bound x at phase 1, but you're looking up a phase 0 binding here.

Bug aside, I had no idea there was anything meaningful for external users
to do with the values underlying syntax classes.  What does the value let
you do?

Carl Eastlund

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> I thought syntax-local-value would produce the syntax-class object that a
> given identifier is bound to but it errors out with 'x is not defined as
> syntax'. Any ideas why? There is one part of my original code base where
> this works and another where it doesn't. I cannot seem to replicate the
> part that works in a small test case.
>
> #lang racket
>
> (require (for-syntax syntax/parse))
>
> (begin-for-syntax
>  (define-syntax-class x))
>
> (define-syntax (bar stx)
>  (syntax-case stx ()
>    [(_ name) (syntax-local-value #'name)]))
>
> (bar x)
>
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