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Would anyone object if I removed mention of syntax-id-rules from the
Guide (and added a "deprecated" warning in the reference)?
I think the documentation should not give the impression that
syntax-id-rules is idiomatic Racket since it will confuse beginners.
syntax-id-rules is poorly designed because (syntax-id-rules [id ....])
seems like it should create a rename-transformer-like identifier macro
that matches only identifiers but instead it matches "any". The Guide
example itself suffers from this buggy behavior.
I realize that there has already been a lot of discussion about
changing or replacing the macros section of the Guide but the part
about syntax-id-rules is particularly misleading for users and needs
to be updated sooner rather than later.
At least one large project, Rosette, had some bugs that I suspect are
due to the Guide's influence.
Alex Knauth
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Jul 29, 2016, 3:49:26 PM7/29/16
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