[R6RS] 3 things we may want to vote on
Marc Feeley
feeley
Wed Jun 8 14:34:21 EDT 2005
On 8-Jun-05, at 2:02 PM, Anton van Straaten wrote:
>
>> - Zap SET-CAR! & SET-CDR!
>> Clinger: yes (if it can be done with the module system)
>> Dybvig: not sure
>> Feeley: no
>> Flatt: no
>> Serrano: no
>> Sperber: yes
>> van Straaten: no
>>
>
> For the record, I agree with Will's position on this. That doesn't
> actually change my vote, unless this change can be done with the
> module system.
>
> Anton
>
Frankly I don't see how a module system would help in practice while
still maintaining the advantages of removing set-car! and set-cdr!
(for example better analysis of the rest parameter list, simpler
implementation of some list primitives such as list?). If it is
possible to get at set-car! and set-cdr!, you'd need a whole-program
analysis to ensure that the list you care about is not being turned
into a circular list, etc. But that same whole-program analysis
could be applied to R5RS. I'm clearly missing something here...
Marc
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