[Axiom-developer] Re: Lisp in Small Pieces

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> I'm interested in continuations (or futures) because this would be a
> perfect mechanism for handling multi-branching provisos, each branch
> in its own continuation. The closest thing in spad seems to be
> infinite streams. However an explicit continuation mechanism would be
> very nice indeed.

Oh, do you like to introduce "Generator" into SPAD? Otherwise I don't 
understand why *I* should become interested in LISP contiuations.

For me LISP is an implementation detail. At some (very low) level of 
abstraction (and in particular at the algebra level), I don't want to 
see LISP anymore. SPAD/Aldor should be the way to program. If there is 
any need to switch to LISP then it's probably better to think about the 
corresponding implementation design of the algebra code.

Aldor is sufficiently powerful. And if SPAD is not going to be as 
powerful as Aldor and there would be need to do something in LISP, then 
I consider that a really bad design decision.

Ralf