Hello, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" <lilypondt...@organum.hu> writes:
> I'm trying to implement a more or less Guile compatible Scheme > implementation in Java. Can you share some insight as to why you took this route rather than use/extend either Kawa or Guile? :-) > However I found that Guile allows 1+ 1- etc. as identifiers. However, > the R5RS spec does not allow. Right. > Could you provide me some background why 1+ exists, as it is the same > as (+ 1, and why is it named like this? It'll be hard to get a definite answer: these procedures have "always" been there, at least since Jim Blandy became Guile's maintainer: commit 0f2d19dd46f83f41177f61d585732b32a866d613 Author: Jim Blandy <j...@red-bean.com> Date: Thu Jul 25 22:56:11 1996 +0000 That's a long time ago... Thanks, Ludo'.
