Hello!
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:09:01PM -0500, Dan Knapp wrote:
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Yeah, it's a good example, but are there any other uses for such quoting?
If not, then implementing it as a builtin is perfectly adequate. (Not
trying to pick on Lisp; Lisp is great. Just hoping for more examples.)
Jerzy Karczmarczuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Macros in Scheme are used to unfold n-ary control structures such as COND
into a hierarchy of IFs, etc. Nothing (in principle) to do with laziness
or HO functions.
Isn't this exactly the reason that macros are less necessary in lazy languages?
In
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:56:24PM +, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
I would like to make pattern and result type signatures one-way
matching, like in OCaml: a type variable just gives a name to the given
part of the type, without constraining it any way - especially without
negative
Alan Bawden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A macro facility is like a pair of vise-grips (if you don't know what
those are, see http://www.technogulf.com/ht-vise.htm).
I found myself laughing heartily at this apt analogy. I have heard
vice grips described as the wrong tool for every job. (My own
