On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 23:42, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Andre van Tonder scripsit: > >> On Thu, 19 May 2011, John Cowan wrote: >> >>> LOOP is too big for WG1 (it's scheduled for WG2), and named-LET is >>> too different. >> >> I thought named let was in WG1. > > Oh yes. I'm saying that people coming into Scheme (which we want to > encourage) will say "Where's the while loop?" and there should be a more > newbie-friendly answer than "Use named LET."
But if WG2 will supply a full featured loop, then these two macros will be redundant, and newbies anyway complain about the parentheses. 8^) Also, while and until macros encourage bad habits. Do we want to attract beginners by making them write fortran code in parentheses? P. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
