Sat, 22 Mar 2014 07:48:49 +0800 от Alan Manuel Gloria <[email protected]>:
>In Scheme, any implementation of Scheme will get traction once it has
>a minimum of RnRS-compatibility (and RnRS is a very short standard,
>except for n=6) plus a module system plus a library repository, and
>each Scheme implementation becomes its own little island, Any short,
>succinct operator that arises on one island will not be understood on
>another island.  Hence the need in Scheme for fully specifying what
>you mean in each name.
This is where the notion of portability arises, as the use of  only those 
identifiers that are defined in the Report.
>> ((append) is not needed here.)
>
>Actually, it is:
Surely it is, I was thinking of some other thing at that moment, sorry.
>
>(let ((x (list 1 2 3))
>      (y (list 4 5 6)))
>  (apply f (append x y)))
>==
>(f 1 2 3 4 5 6)
>
>but:
>
>(let ((x (list 1 2 3))
>      (y (list 4 5 6)))
>  (apply f x y))
>==
>(f (list 1 2 3) 4 5 6)
>
>
>
>>
>> It's not only that -- it is also relevant how arguments are applied to
>> the predicate. To be honest, I have no intuition of whether such
>> generalization is good. Can you come up with any real-world usage
>> example? (Like: multiple argument map allows you to easily define the
>> code that computes the dot product)
>>
>> Sorry, I don't have production examples right before my eyes now, so
>> anything I come up with would be somewhat artificial.
>> Let's say you have two function graphs in two buffers and want to compute
>> their relation at all points where the denominator is not zero:
>>
>> (define nom-list)
>> (define denom-list)
>> (define ratio-list (call-with-values (lambda () (filter (lambda (a b) (not
>> (zero? b))) nom-list denom-list)) (lambda (l1 l2) (map / l1 l2))))
>>
>> (I intentionally have not used any more procedures of prelude.scm in this
>> example.)
>>
>>
>> Pozdrawiam
>> M.
>>
>>
>>
>> С уважением,
>>
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