Brian Harvey scripsit: > I'll let you get away with "toy" as long as it's understood that for > certain purposes a "toy Scheme" is just what you want, e.g., a programming > languages course in which thinking about numbers is a distraction from > the focus of the course.
Well, okay. But the existence of small fast interpreters like Chibi (Chibi 0.2 is fixnum+flonum with almost-R5RS, Chibi pre-0.3 is fixnum+bignum+flonum) makes me wonder when and where you'd want such a very small Scheme as that. Maybe on a chip with no FP, but people would tend to do PL work on x86-class boxen. One might indeed want to *implement* such a Scheme in such a class, but such implementations don't usually worry about standards conformance. -- BALIN FUNDINUL UZBAD KHAZADDUMU [email protected] BALIN SON OF FUNDIN LORD OF KHAZAD-DUM http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
