Hi all, first post: On 9/3/07, Steve Folta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unlike most other Lisps, lambdas in Jolt are *not* closures. Jolt's > big insight is that a closureless Lisp makes a great "portable > assembly language" (better than C, which is often used in that role).
I had this insight myself recently. Obviously Ian (along with many others) beat me to it. :) So my question is; can I define any function passing style I wish, maybe as a global variable/setting somewhere? My idea for a "portable assembly language" before I found Jolt was to make a lisp that the builtins were basically higher level assembly and the only means of looping at all was tail recursion. I also didn't want to be tied to C's means of calling functions except when I do it on purpose. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
