From: Peter Bex <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:33:59 +0200
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 04:26:58AM -0400, John Cowan wrote: >> Peter Bex scripsit: >> >> > I'd especially appreciate feedback on the core library names and >> > the things to kill from core. I will be expanding this page over the >> > next few days/weeks. >> >> I've added lots of comments. Feel free to merge them in or strike them out. > > Thank you for the feedback. I've added my replies inline. I've added > fluid-let to the list of things to be removed. It's dangerously unsafe, > and it is completely unnecessary to have it in core. There are a handful > of uses of it in core that are potentially disastrous, so we should > rewrite those bits. Peter, it's just a binding construct and very useful in certain situations (like binding lexically visible variables in nested procedures). felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
