[racket] Lazy syntax class attributes

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri May 31 17:17:35 EDT 2013

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> Note, however, that the syntax class now uses #:attr instead of #:with.
> That's the main usability issue I'm worried about with this change.
> Following with-syntax's lead, a #:with clause automatically converts its
> right-hand side to syntax---even if the result is "3D". That means that if
> you forget that step of the conversion to laziness, you'll probably get
> bizarre 3D syntax. I could change #:with to raise an error in some/all 3D
> cases, but that might break existing programs.
>
> Is anyone out there using syntax-parse to make 3D syntax?

I'm sure all the places where I do this are bugs (and it has happened
to me), so I'd welcome this error.

Sam

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