Re: [Chicken-users] case vs. eq? - just curious ....

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> Guide himself talks about this here:
> http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-everything-became-executable.html

Fascinating.  I'm working my way through the entire blog (fortunately
only 26 posts) even as we speak.

> PHP has this "problem" as well.  PHP even allows included files and
> EVALed code to access local lexical variables in the calling function.
> I've often seen newbies in #scheme or #chicken who were confused
> by this, and tried to graft similar functionality on top of Scheme
> (which is utterly doomed to fail, of course)

Whew.  I'm certainly glad I always stayed ten miles away from any
PHP code.

> And don't get me started on Javascript with its idiotic "hoisting"
> concept...

There are advantages to the scope of a declaration extending before
the declaration; it means you don't have to have special syntax to
forward-declare a name before you can use it in mutual recursion.
But basically I agree, especially for Scheme syntax declarations.
See "The Tale of Professor Simpleton and Dr. Hardcase" at
http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2009-September/005487.html .
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