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Article #2732Re: Complexity of syntax
From: Jeff Dalton
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:02
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:02
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In article <28228:Jan902:38:1891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >I'm still pretty sure that ``first-class'' means what we think it does. >Unfortunately, it appears that the Scheme literature has gone out of its >way to abuse the term, so we can't use the standard definition of >``first-class'' without causing a ruckus. It's always a shame when >useful terms are killed in this way. Actually, it seems that some C fans are going out of their way to abuse the term, because for some reason they can't stand the idea that functions might not be first class in C. Look at some non-Scheme literature such as Stoy's book on denotational semantics, for example.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Complexity of syntax Message-ID: <4055@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 31 Jan 91 19:02:19 GMT References: <361@coatimundi.cs.arizona.edu> <28228:Jan902:38:1891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 13