[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] body should allow mixing declarations with expressions

Abdulaziz Ghuloum aghuloum at cs.indiana.edu
Sun Mar 11 23:47:03 EDT 2007


On Mar 11, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Per Bothner wrote:

> "Programming languages should be designed not by piling
> feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses
> and restrictions that make additional features appear
> necessary."

Sorry.  What additional features would be required to support
what you want to do (mixing definitions and expressions)?  I
can't think of any since I can already mix definitions and
expressions with minimal difficulty and without requiring any
feature that's not already in the language.

Aziz,,,



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