I was making the naive assumption that if OP didn't know about it then it
wasn't prominent. That perhaps was a little hasty. There is a discussion of
this very thing in the official user guide. First section, 7.16.1. Syntax.
Ben
On Tue May 20 2014 at 15:20:54, Brandon Allbery
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:00 AM, edwardsbenj@gmail.com < edwards.benj@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a known limitation. You can't refer to items in splices that haven't already been mentioned in the source. I don't know why it isn't (prominently) documented, it's definitely part of the folklore.
I think it's pretty well documented? At least I recall noting it first time I looked into TH.
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