Re: case syntax and symbols

[Marius Vollmer]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer wrote:
>> Hmm.  There are two things here that might want a warning:
>> redefining
>> something that was a macro as a variable;
>
> Sounds good; and vice versa?

Yes, and vice versa.

> By the way, has your idea about having "identifier -> macro" instead
> of "identifier -> variable -> macro" been implemented yet?

No, and I have no plans to do it before 1.8.

> Isn't the rule we want "whenever a new definition shadows an existing
> definition in a module, and the existing definition did not originate
> in the current module"?  This rule would also avoid giving unwanted
> warnings when an edited module is reloaded.

Yes, that sounds like a better rule to me.

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