From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: About sweet-expression Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:42:58 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ipiixma5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331016199 26171 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2012 06:43:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 06:43:19 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 07:43:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S4o79-00018J-Ss for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:43:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S4o79-0006UI-9U for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S4o76-0006UD-5W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S4o74-0002Ba-Cp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:43:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S4o74-0002BO-5l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S4o71-0000zo-UD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:43:07 +0100 Original-Received: from p57b9ed81.dip.t-dialin.net ([87.185.237.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:43:07 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p57b9ed81.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:43:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57b9ed81.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4nrXBMg3q0sopAQuPLF8lWAKL9M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:14021 Archived-At: Nala Ginrut writes: > I try to port sweet-expression to newest Guile. Fortunately, the > author wrote a compatible version for old Guile in 2008. So I just try > to rewrite part of it for some obvious reasons. It woks fine now. > > Though some guys doesn't like sweet-expression at all (OK, they're > real Lispers! But me too ;-)). I'm not a big fan to write Scheme like > this: > ----------------------- > define fibfast(n)   >   if {n < 2}        >     n >     fibup(n 2 1 0) > ----------------------- > But I think it maybe useful for newbies especially came from Python of > C. That's like thinking the easiest path for a Franch-speaking newbie to learn English is to start by learning Latin. You'll find that kind of opinion expressed mostly by people fascinated with Latin rather than English. -- David Kastrup