| Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:56:18 -0500 | From: John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Aubrey Jaffer scripsit: | | > I have 70000 lines of mathematical, scientific, engineering, | > database, and scripting software written in Scheme showing that | > R5RS is sufficient without syntax extensions. How much | > one-instruction assembly code have you written? | | Diffidently I suggest that your code might have been substantially | shorter if it had made better use of the R5RS-provided mechanism | for syntactic abstraction.
Not much shorter. Using macros would have eliminated some LAMBDAs at the price of making the code less maintainable. I am methodical in abstracting repeated code into procedures so that when changes are needed, they are needed in only a few places. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
