Three hours ago, Sascha Ziemann wrote:
> 2013/11/18 John Cowan <[email protected]>
>
> > This was all good fun, and easy enough to do in a pure functional
> > dialect of Scheme (mutation really bungs up the kind of aggressive
> > constant propagation and inlining I was doing), but would be hard to
> > scale to a Scheme with mutation!
>
> Well, you could limit mutation to run time only. See Conall
> Elliot's wonderful post "The C language is purely functional" at
> <http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional>.
>
> Matt Might proposes 3D-syntax:
>
> http://matt.might.net/articles/
> metacircular-evaluation-and-first-class-run-time-macros/
That uses 3D syntax only as a solution to capturing names in the
direction where gensym doesn't help; it uses his fexprs, not
implementing them.
--
((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:
http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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