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Re: Scheme mistakes (was Re: nil)



Hey, Arc does precisely this!  

Ever obedient,  --pg

--Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> mike@newhall.net wrote:
> 
> >     Why is it a good thing to make using a continuation object look less
> > like a function application and also a good thing to make using a
> > vector object look more like a function application?
> 
> I may be wrong, but I think Matthias was being *sarcastic*.  I read
> what he was saying as, "If we're going to conflate the notation for
> using continuations with that for functions, why not conflate the
> notation for vectors with that of functions also?"  Of course, this is
> the point where Paul Graham should hop in and point out that Arc does
> precisely this (as I recall).
> 
> Shriram