On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:31:58 -0400, Lynn Winebarger <[email protected]>
wrote:
> This is why I see the view of Scheme as simply a static language as
> weird.
Where does a static versus dynamic language have anything to do with
anything here? Scheme is dynamic, but I fail to see how this applies to
forcing the language to have a certain semantics regarding library
locations on the host machine.
Maybe it makes sense to standardize a way of talking about these things
programmatically, but I doubt it belongs in the language standard per se.
In Chez, the command line options for library search paths and extensions
are provided to the programmer via parameters, and this is a nice useful
feature that I think other Schemes should also adopt, but I don't want it
in the language standard, because that implies too much regarding the
environment in which a Scheme system must run.
Aaron W. Hsu
--
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis
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