Re: Vectors as functions

[Bruce Lewis <address@hidden>]

Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu> writes:

> I'm thinking of situations where you might have a list of symbols
> representing names (or first-class names) and you might want to set their
> values to a given value, like mapping set! over the list of names.  Not
> having names as first-class entities makes that unduly hard.

If you're sure you want to do it this way, and not use a hash table to
deal with names at run time, then you probably want Common Lisp.