On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Andre van Tonder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
>
>> "two-pass" is just "R6RS's".  "one-pass" is just "Andre's" (since no one
>> implements it anyways).
>
> I disagree.  One-pass is implemented by many Schemes at the toplevel
> or REPL, which is really what this discussion used to be about.
>
> The discussion of internal definitions has been a distraction from
> the original point, which concerned what happens at the toplevel.
> R6RS toplevel programs are not 1-pass, and are incompatible
> with REPL execution, if that kind of thing is important to you.
> A REPL will have 1-pass semantics if anything.
>

I thought Brian Harvey was suggesting something like a spreadsheet
semantics for scheme (including macro expansion).


Lynn

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