Interestingly enough, I tried to explain this idea to the Imperative Advanced
Placement crowd in the 1990s. With functional programming -- control from
tail-recursive functions -- is more expressive than programming with limited
loops because you can (1) break/resume/continue/foobar your
Loop syntax and sugar is fine. And having #:continue and #:break
keywords at the top of the form is sufficient warning of surprises
ahead, IMHO.
I do have a minor ongoing concern that people coming from other
languages lately latch onto the for family of forms from the start,
don't get
On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Loop syntax and sugar is fine. And having #:continue and #:break
keywords at the top of the form is sufficient warning of surprises ahead,
IMHO.
I do have a minor ongoing concern that people coming from other languages
lately latch onto
The release process for v6.0.2 will begin in about a week. If
you have any new features that you want in and are relatively close
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
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