On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 01:45:35PM +0200, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Alex Shinn writes: > > Some would indeed argue it would [be a bad thing to use tail > > calls in when], since the whole loop is dependent on side-effects > > (but that's the same argument against unless in the first place). > > That might be reading from some source and writing in some sink, which > are side-effects. The point, though, is that it would not be like > Scheme to have "unless" in the language but not being allowed to rely > on bounded space in the above.
An emphatic "+1" from me! Cheers, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
