MzScheme does the latter (using #%app) and yes indeed, lots can be
done with that (including lazy Scheme as suggested, but also the How
to Design Program teaching subsets use it as do, I'm sure, many other
things).
Robby
On 6/18/07, David Van Horn <dvanhorn at cs.brandeis.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jonathan A Rees wrote:
> > Here is a compromise that satisfies concerns on both sides. Define
> > [a b c] to be a special reader syntax for the four-element list
> > (*square-bracketed* a b c), just as '(a b c) is special reader syntax
> > for the two-element list (quote (a b c)). By "*square-bracketed*" here
> > I really do mean the symbol of that name (although it could be some
> > other symbol).
>
> I would like to see a similar treatment for application so that (f x)
> expands to (*app* f x), for example. It's wonderful that Scheme allows
> the programmer to provide their own lambda, but it's of limited use
> without being able to do the same for application. The lack of symmetry
> is due only to the lambda syntax being named while application is not.
>
> A number of features could be portably defined as a library if it were
> possible to export both apply and lambda syntaxes (eg. lazy Scheme,
> keywords, etc).
>
> David
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