Michael Lenaghan scripsit: > How far do you want to go with the "efficiency hack" thing? All the > way back to lambda calculus and Peano arithmetic? Or maybe just dump > strings in favor of vectors? Good heavens--vectors? Lists are all we > need! :-)
Now it's you who are singing the Beatles. > But you make it sound as if those two things have to conflict. If WG1 > Scheme were to have u8 vectors, why not say they're derived from > define-vector-type? The burden of persuasion falls on the person who would introduce something new, not on the person who wants to keep things as they are. I've been attempting to meet that burden with (so far) 11 major postings, a bunch of linked living documents, and who knows how many clarifications and explanations. -- They do not preach John Cowan that their God will rouse them [email protected] A little before the nuts work loose. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan They do not teach that His Pity allows them --Rudyard Kipling, to drop their job when they damn-well choose. "The Sons of Martha" _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
