[r6rs-discuss] Interpreters need not apply?

From: William D Clinger <will>
Date: Wed Mar 7 13:19:58 2007

I am posting this as an individual member of the Scheme
community. I am not speaking for the R6RS editors.

AndrevanTonder wrote:
> Granted, but what does this have to do with being an interpreter or not?

"Pure" is the operative word.

In an earlier message, you had written:
> No r5rs-conformant Scheme interpreter will start evaluating a form
> without macro-expanding it first.

You have granted that the R5RS allows my example program
to print something. If your earlier claim is true, then
the printing occurs after the program's one form has been
macro-expanded. Macro-expansion of that particular form
takes a long time.

Will
Received on Wed Mar 07 2007 - 13:19:50 UTC