> Tell me, how do you justify in terms of jewel-like beauty the pair- > and list-related procedures in section 6.3.2?
I don't think "jewel-like" quite means "minimal." If the list procedures other than cons, car, cdr, set-car!, and set-cdr! end up in an accessory package that wouldn't kill me, but append and list and map (e.g.) have proven their worth and their coherence and, I think, even their beauty. I wish filter were in the standard, too. I grew up at the MIT AI Lab in the '60s. My Lisp is the Lisp of symbolic information processing. I'm pleased that it's turned out to be useful for other things, too, and I'm proud that so much of our understanding of programming languages in general grew out of that tradition. But I'm not ready to leave the tradition behind. Maybe y'all just have to wait until my generation dies off. That's fairly often how consensus decision-making works out for the Society of Friends, I understand, and I believe they consider that a strength, not a weakness; their elders never have to feel pushed aside. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
