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Or you could just use a lisp. Someone had to say it.
by funcDropShadow 4y ago
Or you could just use a lisp. Someone had to say it.
- masklinn 4y agoOr Smalltalk.
- shakna 4y agoWell, now it's been said... Scheme is my all-time favourite language. The regularity of Scheme's syntax, and the way scoping works in the language, are certainly influential on the way I'm going about designing this weird thing.
- nerdponx 4y agoIs Scheme scoping any different from any other language with lexical/static scoping?
- bjoli 4y agoIt is simpler in some ways, mostly because scheme has a "syntax tower" where even the most basic things can be understood in terms of other things. Let can be defined in terms of lambda. Let* in terms of let. Letrec* is also not that hard. Once you know this and the difference between definition context and bodies (which is simple) there isn't much to add. The top-level works mostly like letrec*. Internal definitions work like letrec* Libraries work like letrec*