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Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless John Cowan (19 May 2011 21:42 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (20 May 2011 09:32 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Alex Queiroz (20 May 2011 09:38 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Alaric Snell-Pym (23 May 2011 10:36 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Eli Barzilay (23 May 2011 10:41 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Aaron W. Hsu (23 May 2011 22:50 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (24 May 2011 08:25 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Emmanuel Medernach (24 May 2011 08:37 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Alaric Snell-Pym (24 May 2011 09:06 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Aaron W. Hsu (24 May 2011 18:57 UTC)
Re: when and unless Arthur A. Gleckler (24 May 2011 19:35 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless leppie (24 May 2011 08:51 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (24 May 2011 09:06 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless leppie (24 May 2011 09:23 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless John Cowan (24 May 2011 14:51 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (24 May 2011 14:57 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Aaron W. Hsu (24 May 2011 18:56 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi 20 May 2011 09:31 UTC 
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 23:42, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> 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.

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