> I think one of the principal ways CASE was originally intended to be used
> was for fast dispatch on symbols or possibly numbers used as typetags in
> objects represented as lists, e.g.,
>  (case (car object)
>    ((node) .....)
>    ((leaf) .....))

Now that I think about it, I think that I almost never use CASE with
something else than symbols and numbers.
And the more I think about it (that, is, not a lot though), the more I
think that CASE is quite useless, as it could be implemented I guess
straightforwardly in terms of COND.
I of course do not care if implementations provide CASE as an
optimised extension, but I wonder whether CASE is at its right place
in the standard.

> I believe there are some Schemes, like STALIN, that highly optimize such
> CASE expressions.  This would be harder to do in a higher-order CASE.

Let the implementation provide its own CASE-on-steroids for symbols and numbers?
It could even be a SRFI, eh.

But I'm definitely going off-topic, so I'll stop here and keep reading
what happens here, for it's still full of wise design explanations I
never ever considered.

Cheers,

P!

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