I think Mike would be happy merely renaming named let to something
else, not taking it away. Do you really care if it begins with the
letters l-e-t or some other letters (legacy code aside)?
Robby
On 1/25/07, Lynn Winebarger <owinebar_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
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> Quoting Michael Sperber <sperber_at_informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>:
> >
> > The fact that the convenient syntax for writing recursive procedures
> > is part of `let' is a long-standing wart in the syntax of Scheme. It
> > is unintuitive (it expands into `letrec', rather than a simpler form
> > of `let), difficult to explain to newcomers to Scheme, and
> > disconcerting to the casual reader.
> >
>
> Let me say, as a heavy user of Scheme and named let,
> "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
> In this case, the non-uniformity of the syntax is not a wart. It
> is deliciously correct, short and sweet. A "rec" form would not (in
> its usual incarnation) let you put initial values in the parameters,
> which is exactly what makes named let so great. letrec is so ugly when
> used for the same purposes.
> Oh, and named let is not another name for "loop". It's for
> recursion every which way you want it.
> Please, please, do not take named let away from me!
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
> Lynn
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