From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: CPS thoughts Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 22:19:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87ppwl9zgi.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369081166 3940 80.91.229.3 (20 May 2013 20:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 20:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: noah.b.lavine@gmail.com Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 20 22:19:26 2013 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 1UeWYH-0004RE-5m for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeWYG-0003W1-IU for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42429) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeWYB-0003Vf-6X for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeWY5-000480-F2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:51739 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeWY5-00047j-8o for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:13 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C3CC2D1; Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:12 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=n 8Hm2ka1YE2EAgkkUN9bK301tmk=; b=CXnvfM+2tDwut6SGGGFsLeyAvM0pr1EvI ZfpLUXdxNLoBuvlbNQ7ZqFnILqghzPqk6mMtyG+k4h37dyFJhLpMyycbSimr0bE8 +yefVHH63nuQPYyWHMEqNAnovtF0vK+sjLBuhMJ7Tmg9S5iTs8TkYxWCxeaz5DIw RWv+Hjesg8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s= sasl; b=BV8/iw+7OQkQKblZOOoYNXtj9EpqSsqN0l8rnPZ2CKUycTlvfuL92t9w CbtZhl8VPLDQkVG4Kr3SSSZyJPZNLk9cXdtAGjZY8AeeTRtoZOw9OQTjzr2ypM6G 2moEuKx2aTHh1fvtqXdZDanCSYGQnDFa1HLfCXiz1Tui/jFGZb0= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31D8C2D0; Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [88.160.190.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15760C2CF; Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:11 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 88F80ADA-C18A-11E2-904E-9F710E5B5709-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 208.72.237.25 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:16395 Archived-At: Some first thoughts on the CPS language, just after having looked at (language cps): * Overall looking really good. * License blocks are missing. * Toplevel comments should be prefixed by ";;; " (three semicolons). * Overview could go in the module commentary section. * Missing distinction between original names and unique names. * Missing source information. * Missing procedure properties. * Why is there no "let" that can bind functions? You don't always want to set up a recursive binding environment. * Lambdas are missing lambda* and case-lambda support. What do you think about rebasing? wip-rtl-may-2013 is a good target until wip-rtl goes into master. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/