Re: [Scheme-reports] returning back to pattern matching
Andre van Tonder 24 Dec 2010 00:27 UTC
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Alex Shinn wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Andre van Tonder <andre@het.brown.edu> wrote:
>>
>> After years of using Scheme, I have probably encountered LOOP less than 5 times
>> in someone else's code. Every time I had to go look it up in the standard to
>> try to figure out what it means. In my opinion, LOOP code is not readable code.
>
> I don't think anyone has any intention of proposing
> the CL loop. More likely would be Shiver's loop or
> foof-loop (http://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/foof-loop.txt).
That is in the realm of language design, and would not be, in my opinion,
appropriate for a standardization effort, which should concentrate on
standardizing common usages and practices. See the C.A.R. Hopare quote alluded
to previously.
Andre
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