Hello SinDoc, no special form at all? Cool, I'll have a look.
Chapter 4.1 and 4.2 actually sit on my desk already since yesterday - I just didnt read it. I hope I get a chance in the next days. Many thanks, alux On 1 Jun., 09:38, "Sina K. Heshmati" <s...@khakbaz.com> wrote: > "alux" <alu...@googlemail.com> said: > > Hey alux, > > > what an interesting discussion! Whoo! ;-) > > > Many thanks four your comment. > > >> So, if you have lazy-eval, there's no need for special-forms. > > > This is obviousely correct for if / cond. > > > Looking into the other special forms (http://clojure.org/special_forms > > ), I wouldnt know how to implement all of them. Certainly there is, > > unknownst to me, a bunch of literature about (sets of) primitives that > > cannot e replaced - literature hints anybody? > > (Well, thats probably a nice set of exercises :) > > If you're interested in programming languages, I encourage you to study SICP > [1]. In chapter four, you can see variations of Scheme implemented in a > metacircular way. One of these variations is a lazy evaluator (4.2 [2]). > Please note that the lazy evaluator does NOT have special-forms at all. > > Kind ragards, > SinDoc > > [1]http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html > [2]http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-27.html#%_sec_4.2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
