Re: JACAL, scm

[Rob Browning]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> Compilation goals are a complete red herring.  As an extension
> language, Guile needs dynamic features, elisp or no elisp.  For each
> compiler that is actually developed, restricted subsets of Guile can
> be identified which that compiler is able to optimize.

I only reason I included that is because though I don't really know
exactly what elisp might require, I was extrapolating from what I know
about scheme.  For example, the fact that scheme requires
call-with-current-continuation means that some optimizations are
likely to be more difficult than they would be if the language didn't
have such a construct.

I don't agree that at least briefly considering such issues
constitutes a "complete red herring".

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