[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] body should allow mixing declarationswith expressions

[Chongkai Zhu]

+1.

As our motto shows, we should adopt this.

Many people argue that side-effects (and namy others) could lead
to bad style program, but those fearures is in Scheme, right?

Chongkai

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cowan" <cowan at ccil.org>
Cc: <r6rs-discuss at lists.r6rs.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] [Formal] body should allow mixing declarationswith expressions
> 
> I, on the other hand, hold it to be good style not to introduce
> new names until necessary (in any programming language); and using
> defines in this fashion reduces the amount of nesting required,
> thus adding to expressiveness.
> 
> I am not alone in this view: the more recently devised members of
> the Algol family of programming languages, namely C++, Java, and C#,
> all allow this style of mid-block declaration.  Scheme too belongs
> to this family (despite its lexical syntax), and I see no reason
> why it should not acquire this facility as well.
> 
> I note that Chicken and scsh already support this style.
> 
> -- 
> John Cowan    http://ccil.org/~cowan  cowan at ccil.org
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