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Richard Tobin scripsit:
> When I think of Scheme I think of call/cc, hygienic macros, everything
> done with a minimal number of primitives, all non-functional operators
> marked (set! etc), a denotational semantics in the appendix. Python
> is a bit lispy in having lots of list functions and some version of
> lambda, but it's hardly Scheme.
It has continuations. Hygienic macros are a Good Thing, but didn't make
it into the standard until R5RS; many implementations are still at R4RS.
The rest is ... syntax.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are
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they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit
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