Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
>
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
>
>> "Programming languages should be designed not by piling
>> feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses
>> and restrictions that make additional features appear
>> necessary."
>
> Sorry. What additional features would be required to support
> what you want to do (mixing definitions and expressions)?
None that I can think of.
> I can't think of any since I can already mix definitions and
> expressions with minimal difficulty and without requiring any
> feature that's not already in the language.
Right - you can replace
EXPR
by
(define UNUSED1 (begin EXPR (unspecified)))
which is what 5.92 does for top-level bodies.
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Received on Mon Mar 12 2007 - 01:42:16 UTC