From: Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile Assembler
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:18:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r3p1etm9.fsf@barry_fishman.acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAMFYt2beX7J_erFG_RLog8huX7r+VX2fL28rqB7HnX3u0KwozA@mail.gmail.com
On 2015-06-23 23:00:19 +0200, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote:
> 2015-06-23 14:54 GMT+02:00 Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org>:
>> This amalgam of 'match' and 'define-syntax's style '...', and
>> 'destructuring-bind' syntax just seems to add complexity to a language
>> whose prime benefit is the clarity of its explicitness and lack of
>> syntax.
>>
>
> I agree that the presence of ellipsis in the pattern matcher is dubious. On
> the other hand, since it's already there, it allows to make it clear to the
> reader that a given argument is meant to be a list.
>
> OTOH I see that it wasn't much of a problem for you to understand the
> code.
I didn't understand the code. I understood the documentation in its
source file that you referenced.
--
Barry Fishman
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-24 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-22 18:32 Guile Assembler Sjoerd van Leent
2015-06-22 20:49 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2015-06-23 6:28 ` Nala Ginrut
2015-06-23 9:12 ` tomas
2015-06-23 9:19 ` Nala Ginrut
2015-06-23 9:27 ` tomas
2015-06-23 9:30 ` Nala Ginrut
2015-06-23 9:45 ` tomas
2015-06-23 21:33 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2015-06-24 8:34 ` tomas
2015-06-24 9:44 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2015-06-24 11:59 ` dsmich
2015-06-24 21:54 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2015-09-04 0:54 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-04 9:31 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2015-09-04 16:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-06-23 12:54 ` Barry Fishman
2015-06-23 21:00 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2015-06-24 2:18 ` Barry Fishman [this message]
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