racket / racket/redex

`redex-check` doesn't bind patterns normally

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Description

In the program

#lang racket
(require redex/reduction-semantics)
(define-language L
  (n ::= 1))

(redex-check
 L n
 n)

I get the error n: unbound identifier pointing at what should be the binding occurence of n in the redex-check.

I would expect redex-check to behave more line define-term and give an error like:

n: illegal use of syntax
  value at phase 1: #<defined-term> in: n

pointing at the use of n

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Start with the minimal redex-check example in the issue and compare its binding behavior with define-term. Trace the redex-check and define-term entry points to determine why n is reported as unbound, then verify that the same example produces the expected illegal-use-of-syntax diagnostic at the n use.

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compilers
Issue type
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