From 83f8cfd69b39af34510c20f0697c23da4a52e1f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Shinn <ashinn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:46:29 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Adding note about the derived syntax definition of quote.  It
 makes compilation slightly but noticeably slower and is inconvenient, so
 leaving as a core form for now.

---
 eval.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/eval.c b/eval.c
index 188df9a5..8973d5cd 100644
--- a/eval.c
+++ b/eval.c
@@ -1811,6 +1811,14 @@ sexp sexp_define_foreign_param (sexp ctx, sexp env, const char *name,
 
 /*********************** standard environment *************************/
 
+/* The 10 core forms.  Note quote can be defined as derived syntax: */
+
+/*  (define-syntax quote */
+/*    (lambda (expr use-env mac-env) */
+/*      (list */
+/*       (make-syntactic-closure mac-env (list) (syntax-quote syntax-quote)) */
+/*       (strip-syntactic-closures (car (cdr expr)))))) */
+
 static struct sexp_core_form_struct core_forms[] = {
   {SEXP_CORE_DEFINE, (sexp)"define"},
   {SEXP_CORE_SET, (sexp)"set!"},