Re: (Meta) Guile and direction (Re: Syntatic sugar and identifier permissivity)

[Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>]

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Lalo Martins <lalo@hackandroll.org> writes:

> Craig> Stop trolling.
> 
> I'm not trolling.

uh-huh.  first you propose a wrong-headed syntactic extension, and
then when people explain why it's wrong you say that Guile lacks
direction.

but never you mind.

here's my take on what Guile is: Guile is (not entirely consiously) a
worse-is-better project.  Guile tries to popularize a good language
(Lisp in the guise of Scheme) by making it be as friendly to C as
possible.

so while this approach makes _implementational_ crocks acceptable,
_idealogical_ crocks (like fscking up a perfectly good and clean syntax 
and introducing unnesessary concepts) are not really helpful.

nobody's forcing you to give up Perl, you know.

-- 
One man's constant is another man's variable.
                -- Alan Perlis