WIP, trying to understand why macro is failing

scheme/cyclone/transforms.scm

@@ -914,7 +914,7 @@
 ;; return some value such as #t or nil as a placeholder, since the
 ;; define-syntax form would not be carried forward in the compiled code
      ((define-syntax? exp) ;; TODO: not good enough, should do error checking, and make sure list is big enough for cadr
-      (trace:info `(define-syntax ,exp))
+      ;(trace:info `(define-syntax ,exp))
       (let* ((name (cadr exp))
              (trans (caddr exp))
              (body (cadr trans)))

test2.scm

@@ -1,11 +1,24 @@
 (import (scheme base)
         (scheme write))
 
+;(define-syntax test
+;  (er-macro-transformer
+;    (lambda (expr rename compare)
+;      `((lambda ()
+;        (write "testing")
+;        (write (quote ,(cdr expr))))))))
+;
+; WTF is the macro unable to be evaluated when the same code works as part of *defined-macros*???
+;
 (define-syntax test 
   (er-macro-transformer
      (lambda (expr rename compare)
-      (write "testing")
-      (write expr))))
+       (cond ((null? (cdr expr)))
+             ((null? (cddr expr)) (cadr expr))
+             (else (list (rename 'if) (cadr expr)
+                         (cons (rename 'and) (cddr expr))
+                         #f))))))
 
 (test 1 2 3)
-(test 'done)
+;(test 'done)
+'done