William D Clinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Sperber wrote: >> As I don't use `when' and `unless', it's clear that >> they're not worth the cost to me. I wonder what others think. > > I don't use them either, and it's harder for me to > read code that uses them because I have to stop and > think whenever I see either, especially "unless".
+1 > If we "must" have these things in the R6RS (because > a portable SRFI would be too inefficient?), then > banishing them to a separate library is valuable, > not only so people can more easily avoid pollution > of their mental name space but also so the library > can serve as repository for other miscellaneous > control syntax such as while, until, dijkstra, and > of course the Common Lisp-style loop macro whose > absence has prevented Scheme from being taken > seriously as a mainstream programming language. > To serve that second purpose, however, the library > should be renamed to (r6rs syntax control). +1 -- Martin _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
