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datum->syntax chokes on lists of syntax objects

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From: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 21379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21379: datum->syntax chokes on lists of syntax objects
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:28:39 +0200

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Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> How about changing the first formal argument name to 'template-id' and
> changing the words "syntax object" to "identifier"?
>
>      Thanks!
>        Mark

Sure, updated patch attached.

Taylan

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From 2ba9474dc8e2a56524d8c6c2f640fb3fb35b2d14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Taylan=20Ulrich=20Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?=
 <taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 10:24:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Amend datum->syntax documentation.

* doc/ref/api-macros.texi (Syntax Case): Make it clear that the first
  argument to datum->syntax must be an identifier.
---
 doc/ref/api-macros.texi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ref/api-macros.texi b/doc/ref/api-macros.texi
index c2910a4..a828258 100644
--- a/doc/ref/api-macros.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/api-macros.texi
@@ -616,9 +616,9 @@ won't have access to the binding of @code{it}.
 
 But they can, if we explicitly introduce a binding via @code{datum->syntax}.
 
-@deffn {Scheme Procedure} datum->syntax for-syntax datum
+@deffn {Scheme Procedure} datum->syntax template-id datum
 Create a syntax object that wraps @var{datum}, within the lexical context
-corresponding to the syntax object @var{for-syntax}.
+corresponding to the identifier @var{template-id}.
 @end deffn
 
 For completeness, we should mention that it is possible to strip the metadata
-- 
2.5.0

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