r7rs-large

How come the working group for r7rs-large hasn't made any posts since last year?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scheme-reports-wg2

I hope they have not given up.

What do you think the end language will look like?
Would it be more preferable to use than CL or Clojure?

o boy i sure am feelin large ...
/farts liquid

computer animation? big fucking deal ...

Scheme was never meant to be large.

Would it be more preferable to use than CL or Clojure?

Isn't CL already implementable in Scheme?

Because google has mode groups unusable

r7rs fails to support modular programming

you cannot build a program with a subcomponent that may be replaced

Isn't CL already implementable in Scheme?

This is a terminal case of the "could be done", also known as The Lisp Disease.

>>1

What do you think the end language will look like?

I don't care. There won't be a single standards-conforming implementation anyways. And Scheme is and has always been a toy language. I use it to solve SICP exercises, but I couldn't care less for some idiots making standards worth only wiping one's ass with them in an effort to make Scheme into something more than what it's useful for.

>>7
What are your favorite Scheme-like languages that are not toy languages?

>>8
javascript XD

>>7
HAHAHAHA
YOU THINK YOURE THOUGH UH ?
I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU
THE FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE
GET IT ?
I DONT THINK SO
YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT MY OTHER CAR I GUESS ?
ITS A CDR
AND IS PRONOUNCED ``CUDDER''
OK YOU FUQIN ANGERED AN EXPERT PROGRAMMER
THIS IS /prog/
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO POST HERE ONLY IF YOU HAVE ACHIEVED SATORI
PROGRAMMING IS ALL ABOUT ``ABSTRACT BULLSHITE'' THAT YOU WILL NEVER COMPREHEND
I HAVE READ SICP
IF ITS NOT DONE YOU HAVE TO
TOO BAD RUBY ON RAILS IS SLOW AS FUCK
BBCODE AND ((SCHEME)) ARE THE ULTIMATE LANGUAGES
ALSO
WELCOME TO /prog/
EVERY THREAD WILL BE REPLIED TO
NO EXCEPTION

>>8
Haskell.

>>10
Thanks for a meme redux, /prague/

>>6
No you really can do it, but the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

>>13
You seem to misunderstand the "could be done disease". It's not that the things Lispers say can be done in Lisp actually cannot be done, no - it's that they saying that it can be done in Lisp is the most they actually do.

>>14
Your argument is a loose and unverifiable generalization of a hazy group of people. I can't make a well founded statement that would even be relevant. fuck off vanila

http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq-macros

There is a bug in the R5RS sample implementation of letrec:

Holy fuck Scheme is not only for retards (and undergrads), it's also by retards!

>>16

anyone who makes a mistake ever is a retard

you are ill

>>17
You're the one ill here, making up quotes that no one said.

I never said that anyone who makes a mistake ever is a retard.

I only said that if there is a mistake in the sample implementation for a standard of a language designed with minimalism as one of the main goals, and this mistake is in such a core and uber-important form as letrec, then the people behind that language and its standards are retarded.

But you probably will not be able to comprehend the difference here, ricegrain-brain.

I don't see the valid usecases for any let forms except letrec-values.

* let by default
* let* when you need them to be done in order
* letrec when you are defining a local recursive function
* let-values is a new great thing that subsumes the awful call-with-values

and there are some weird stuff like letrec* with papers on it, but these things are so advanced its not generally important

Sometimes, people refer to languages like Scheme (and Lisp and Smalltalk) as untyped. This is very misleading. In a truly untyped language (like FORTH and most assembly languages), you can interpret a value any way you want--as an integer, a pointer, or whatever. (You can also do this in C, using unsafe casts, which is a source of many time-consuming bugs.(3) )

ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_34.html#SEC35

That's why the correct terminology is unityped.

_{(stopping the dubsfaggot from dubsbumping)}