> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:34:25 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Why not make "if" *not* be a special form in Scheme?.
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:53:53AM -0600, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
> > Think about that for a minute- do you really want every else to always be
> > executed? Imagine that one branch of an if frees a resource (say closes a
> > file). That'd be bad.
>
> Ah but you had to resort to a side effect. Design a purely functional langie
> and "if" doesn't have to be special anymore. :)
>
Sure, just design a perfectly functional universe first. Or do you really want
to never write to a file in your programming language?
Gabe
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