On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:42:57AM -0500, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: >>> I haven't seen this book mentioned here before, so: >>> >>> http://letoverlambda.com/ >>> >>> It is, well, a very particular perspective on things, but I've heard >>> people speak well of it. >> >> It looks interesting. Very unSchemeish, though. Chapter 6, on >> anaphoric macros, seems to celebrate unhygienicity. >> >> -- hendrik > > The following passage is particularly unsettling. > > "Even the vast majority of Scheme systems, the platform that has > experimented the most with hygiene, provide unhygienic defmacro-style > macros—presumably because not even Scheme implementors take hygiene > very seriously. Like training wheels on a bicycle, hygiene systems are > for the most part toys that should be discarded after even a modest > level of skill has been acquired."
The paragraph before that is a strange rant, too. Good thing we're not Scheme anymore. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
