Scheme language standardization process
On Wed, 04 May 2011 17:44:34 -0400, Andre van Tonder <andre@x> wrote: > So we need hygienic > identifier comparison to prevent macros from breaking catastrophically > as in the examples I showed. Indeed, a programmer ought to be able to rely on the ``hygiene'' and ``referential transparency'' principles throughout the standard forms. It is more "inelegant" to me to have varying "specialized" semantics for various forms than to have a generic overarching principle of hygiene and referential transparency directing the decisions of language standardization. Aaron W. Hsu -- Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports