Re: [Chicken-users] future of chicken?

[felix]

William Annis wrote:
> 
>         I don't know if Pete has made this clear yet, but he and I
> have been having fantasies about things we want our Perfect Lisp to
> have.  Chicken was the lucky implementation in our search for the best
> Scheme to start with for the full corruption. :)

:-)

> 
>         My main motivation is ARC (http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html)
> which includes some radical changes: replacing the wordy 'lambda' with
> 'fn' (making anonymous functions smaller and forcing less
> indentation); making 'if' anaphoric.  That is, have tests bind the
> answer to 'it' in the bodies of the "then" and "else" clauses.  Other
> sorts of things are at the ARC page.
> 

Yes, ARC is definitely worth to watch. Personally, I'm not so much
for abbreviatin', but I see the point.
But, Anaphoric IF? ... I don't know. ;-)


cheers,
felix