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First-class environments. Discuss. ;)Thomas Lord's recent insistence that a simpler Scheme is possible (including that advanced features such as first-class macros and environments should be provided, with the caveat that their use may be less performant than non first-class devices) has got me to investigate first-class environments. Way back there's been a bit of discussion of this topic here. The usual arguments against first-class environments are:
On the pro side, we have:
So my question is: given that JITs are commonplace these days, should first-class environments be reconsidered for inclusion into programming languages? By Manuel J. Simoni at 2010-03-19 09:50 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 111536 reads
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