[R6RS] data relevant to ticket #117
dyb at cs.indiana.edu
dyb at cs.indiana.edu
Sun Dec 10 13:51:38 EST 2006
Thanks, Will. I just did a brief search myself, quitting of boredom after
the first 60,000 lines of code.
Of 161 occurrences of (let () ---) and 28 of (letrec ---):
- 1 could be eliminated by adopting the proposal made by ticket #117.
(This is in the else clause of a cond expresison, where a local
helper is defined and used three times.)
- 28 could be eliminated by allowing bodies on the RHS of define
(and 1 more for define-syntax).
My results are thus consistent with Will's.
Also, FYI:
- 4 appear in the consequent or alternative subexpressions of if
expressions, which I might be tempated to rewrite as cond expressions
if the proposal made by ticket #117 were adopted.
- 8 could be eliminated by allowing bodies in special-purpose case-like
internal derived forms (this could be an argument for or against the
proposal)
- 92 occurrences could have been module forms had we had modules when
the code was written
- 11 are used in transformer templates to give body semantics to some
part of the syntactic form being defined
Kent
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