[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Remove double phase semantics

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Sun Nov 26 16:14:08 2006

William D Clinger scripsit:

> It wouldn't take any cleverness at all to avoid the inefficiencies
> associated with the separated binding semantics in real programs,
> provided the R6RS semantics applies only to scripts.

I do not understand this talk of "real programs". R6RS defines
a program as a script plus some number of imported libraries;
there are no programs other than these.

Have you been infected with the notion that scripts aren't
real programs, for some values of "real"?

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Received on Sun Nov 26 2006 - 16:14:03 UTC

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