Special Form Syntax (MIT/GNU Scheme 12.1)

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1.4.3 Special Form Syntax

(keyword component …)

A parenthesized expression that starts with a syntactic keyword is a special form. Each special form has its own syntax, which is described later in the manual.

Note that syntactic keywords and variable bindings share the same namespace. A local variable binding may shadow a syntactic keyword, and a local syntactic-keyword definition may shadow a variable binding.

The following list contains all of the syntactic keywords that are defined when MIT/GNU Scheme is initialized:

access and begin

case cond cons-stream

declare define

define-integrable define-structure define-syntax

delay do er-macro-transformer

fluid-let if lambda

let let* let*-syntax

let-syntax letrec letrec-syntax

local-declare named-lambda non-hygienic-macro-transformer

or quasiquote quote

rsc-macro-transformer sc-macro-transformer set!

syntax-rules the-environment