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> Scheme Out of interest, what are the dark corners of Scheme? I've been using Racket for a while now and I've not come across any unexpected behaviour. I sup
by James_Duval 13y ago
> Scheme
Out of interest, what are the dark corners of Scheme? I've been using Racket for a while now and I've not come across any unexpected behaviour.
I suppose using non-idiomatic language elements such as mutations is a little odd but so far I've found nothing in the language which has surprised me.
- vidarh 13y agoI meant as in "stuff that is difficult for most 5-10 year olds (or so) to pick up easily on their own".
- GregBuchholz 13y agoOleg Kiselyov has done some exploration into the darker corners of Scheme. See things like: How to Write Seemingly Unhygienic and Referentially Opaque Macros with Syntax-rules http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/macros.html#dirty-macros http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/macros.html#dirty-macros