Syntax puns considered harmful (well, not really)

Schemers use the word "syntax" to mean at least two (and maybe even three) different things:

• in DEFINE-SYNTAX and LET-SYNTAX, syntax means macro expander
• in SYNTAX and QUASISYNTAX, syntax means code
• in BEGIN-FOR-SYNTAX, syntax means compile-time (although it's debatable whether this use of syntax is really different from the first one)

There is a certain elegance in that, but in the end it's also a bit silly.

And it's problematic, as the (awesome) paper Languages as Libraries shows: because LET-SYNTAX is already taken to mean "locally bind a macro expander", they have to use WITH-SYNTAX to mean "locally bind a piece of code".