Han-Wen Nienhuys:
Hi, I'm still confused and irritated that the order of execution
in quasiquote lists are not (in my opinion) proper. I wrote about
this to this list some time ago, and got the expected answer that
the scheme standard does not specify the order.
However, there is nothing wrong still doing it according to the
specification, its still scheme.
Is there a good reason why the execution is random for guile?
I think it is wise not to change this. If GUILE starts specifying a
certain execution order, people will rely on this order, which will
guarantees that their code will break on other Schemes.
Well, I see it more like setting something that should be the standard
for scheme.
The magic about lisp is that it can be used by the programmer to
configure itself to be any kind of programming language, and giving the
programmer infinite freedom. However, when the order of execution is
"random", guile tends to force a more functional programming style onto
the programmer, which in many/most cases are just fine. However, in some
situations, the programmer knows better, and would like to use set! (or
something like that) inside unquoted blocks in quasiquote lists. By
having it "random", guile implicit assumes that the programmer is stupid.
And that is also offending.
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