[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pika 0.1pre3 -- writer, vectors, contributions
From: |
Jonathan Walther |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pika 0.1pre3 -- writer, vectors, contributions |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:27:53 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:04:08AM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
A new release from the Pika Scheme project is available at the
usual mirrors:
Sounds cool; will there be support for POSIX system calls? Will this
depend on a bunch of other libraries, or will I be able to stick this as
a completely self-contained program in the X source tree?
Also, I respect your effort to make Pika completely R5RS compliant, but
I dislike hygeinic macros. After reading Paul Graham, I can see how
non-hygeinic macros are useful for some things. I *also* read a paper
showing how R5RS "hygeinic" macros really aren't; you can go through
some ugly contortions to break the hygeine.
Since macro side effects can be useful, why make a person go through
contortions to obtain them? I can see maybe adding some syntactic sugar
to make such side effects intentional, but why try to eliminate them
altogether? I mean, we put safety guards on our Skil saws, but we don't
cover over the blade completely; what good is a saw that you can't cut
anything with?
http://paulgraham.com/
Cheers!
Jonathan
--
It's not true unless it makes you laugh,
but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Geek House Productions, Ltd.
Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting,
QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation,
General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998
Phone: 604-951-4142
Email: address@hidden
Webpage: http://reactor-core.org
Address: 13685 Hilton Road, Surrey, BC
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature