If I'm not mistaken, what makes a special form to be special is that evaluation happens abnormally....
(if (< x 0) "negative" "positive") The only way I can see that "if" is special is that for an optimization it will chose to not evaluate the last list element when the condition is TRUE. Is that right? Wouldn't it be better/more minimalistic to just always evaluate the last list element to cut down on the number of "special forms" by 1? I thought unnecessary special forms was bad and unminimalistic which is not the Scheme-ic way!? Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
