Am Sa., 2. Dez. 2023 um 23:16 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <[email protected]>:
> > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:02 PM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> One may draw the conclusion that neither SRFI 245 nor SRFI 251 are ready >> for standardization if there is such a fundamental disagreement in the >> community. >> > > That is indeed the conclusion that I draw. > > For that matter, there are other alternatives, such as Javascript > hoisting. I think it is no accident that use-before-definition is > forbidden in almost all languages nowadays, at least at a level other than > the top level. (Algol 68 and PL/I both feature it, but in the former case > at least one major implementation banned it.) > What do you mean exactly by "use-before-definition"? The following JS program seems valid: function f () { let i; let g = (x) => h(x); i = 42; let h = (x) => x; return g (i); } f (); Recursive functions work as in Scheme. By the way, this program also shows that JS has R6RS/SRFI 245 semantics and not SRFI 251 semantics.
