I brought up fexprs on Lambda the Ultimate http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3640
just yesterday and Thomas made a similar response about fexprs and first class environments. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > You know, the conservative, incremental thing to do > would be to add something along the line of fexprs > and first class environments and let the rest sort itself > out in libraries. Can you point to a detailed description of what *you* mean by fexprs and first-class environments for Scheme, in particular? > Compiler freaks (bless them) What is the intended connotation of "freaks"? > are free > to handle only certain subsets of such a core plus libraries, > punting the rest to an interpreter. > > It's conservative and incremental because it just floats > some existing elements of the semantics into first-class > values. It's practical because, well, it's been done more > than once. Peter _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
