Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit: > Yep. That wouldn't couldn't shouldn't work in a REPL. But it'd be nice > if it worked in a module form or other such construct that means the > entire thing is available as a single s-expression, as not having to > think hard about how to order things to make the recursion work is > nice for the programmer.
As I've posted before, I'm not thrilled with the idea. I want to be able to read a program from top to bottom at least knowing what is syntax (and idiosyncratic), thus being able to assume that everything else is a procedure call (whose syntax is fixed). If I had my druthers, all programs would begin with syntax-rules macros (possibly zero of them) at the top, and the rest of the code would use those extensions and not be able to add any more new syntax. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] 'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place, The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace, We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't stall, So raise the penguin banner of / The Linux-nationale. --Greg Baker _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
