From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Nice quote from the cover of R2RS Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:38:21 +0000 Message-ID: <87vd2oad3m.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292845153 26016 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2010 11:39:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 20 12:39:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUe53-0000ZS-PZ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:39:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUe53-0007GX-9W for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44682 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUe50-0007GR-JD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUe4z-0005JA-Dx for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:37736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUe4y-00050H-RV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [78.149.199.147]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B171F66F6; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:38:22 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from neil-laptop (neil-laptop [192.168.11.7]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5FA3800B; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:38:20 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:17:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11263 Archived-At: Mark H Weaver writes: > Data and procedures and the values they amass, > Higher-order functions to combine and mix and match, > Objects with their local state, the messages they pass, > A property, a package, the control point for a catch-- > In the Lambda Order they are all first-class. > One Thing to name them all, One Thing to define them, > One Thing to place them in environments and bind them, > In the Lambda order they are all first-class. Thanks, I enjoyed that. I'd say the first half is more Auden (like the Night Mail) than Tolkien though. > I wonder if it might be included in the Guile manual for fun. For me, it's close but not quite there yet. The scansion doesn't really work, and for me that let's it down. But I imagine that could be fixed, if someone wants to have a go at it. Neil