Re: [Texmacs-dev] First results on Schemes, Lisps & others

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Sun, 23 May 2004, David MENTRE wrote:
> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:
> > Since Scheme mostly seems to be a strict part of OCaml (am I right?),
> I can't say. I don't know Scheme enough.

And I do not know OCaml enough...

> > would it not be possible to syntactically rewrite Scheme programs into
> > OCaml programs (apart from call/cc). WHat do I miss?
>
> I'm not sure for syntactical rewriting. I always fear corner minor
> issues that make such translation hard in practice (e.g. mutability of
> strings, handling of numerical issues, ...).

We do not use these kind of fancy issues anyway.

> To have a strong answer, we would need to do a side-by-side comparison,
> but I won't do it tonight. :)

Tomorrow night?