Pattern-translation discussion

1993-05-17 Thread rabin
s, avoiding or requesting name-capture in macro-expansions is a user-level issue, requiring attention on the part of language-feature designers. A good place to start reading about this subject is the appendix on macros in the Revised^4 Report on Scheme. -- Dan Rabin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

n+k patterns

1993-05-18 Thread rabin
dn't be fooling around with dangerous machines such as computers. -- Dan Rabin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) *in fact, there is little chance that a program will be understood, period.

Arrays and Assoc

1993-10-05 Thread rabin
lize with wild abandon: what would be the consequences of automatically deriving an class abstraction for _every_ Haskell data type? Even function types are eligible via the abstract operation `apply'. What new vistas now unfold? ---

The need for C.A.T.S.U.P. lives on!

1992-08-07 Thread Dan Rabin
om A and Inference Rule 1. :-) ------ -- Dan Rabin, Old Lisp Hand, Moderate Pragmatist, and Abstract-Thinker-Who's-Above-Thinking-About-Concrete-Syntax-in-training.