On Tuesday 24 February 2009 21:01:58 Andre van Tonder wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Christian Sloma wrote: > >> Where is the burden on macro-free programs? (This is not meant to be > >> argumentative---I am genuinely trying to understand this criticism). > > > > Just one example: R6RS disallows the mixing of expression and definitions > > in libraries. > > This restriction has nothing to do with macros, though. Expressions could > have been allowed easily, as you will see if you consider that even in R6RS > you can get the effect of an interleaved expression by simply making it the > RHS of a dummy definition.
Note that it *has* to be inside a define, as the define marks the body to be delayed until all off the other definitions are evaluated. Christian _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
