> Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | I figured that since you are deeply involved in developing Boot that
> | an `interesting' example would roll off the tip of your tongue. Sorry.
>
> I'm driven by application: I've seen code converted from Boot to Lisp
> on the ground that Lisp was more powerful. Yet, in the code
> converted, no additional strength of Lisp was used.
>
Most of "converted" code is simply output of the Boot translator.
It is clear that such code can not use features absent in Boot.
There is a few snippets which were really converted to work around
limitations of Boot. In fact I yesterday commited one such
snippet: I needed double precision numeric constants, but both
old Boot and Shoe were mangling them.
Most of limitations affecting practical code is rather silly and
we should simply remove them.
--
Waldek Hebisch
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