>> personally, an optimizing compiler should honor all language semantics >> > Thomas Lord wrote: > Adapting one's programming environment to the domain, and > preserving and improving the ability to do so, seem central to > lisp, to me. Standards have important roles but, mostly in the > area of establishing a common vocabulary.
I agree, however if sequentially is fundamental to a core language's semantics, I don't believe it can be reasonably compromised without fundamentally compromising the integrity and utility of its corresponding derivative languages; as although programs operating on purely synthetic data are useful, ignoring those which rely on the timing/sequentially of logical events would severely limit its practical utility in many application domains. (in my opinion and experience) _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
