Re: scheme [Re: What does an anti-perl look like]

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From: Raul Rockwell
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 20:18

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A. Gaynor:
   The ability to handle variable numbers of arguments is a big win.
   Seriously affects readability and usability.  This feature should
   be provided by a clean (hell, transparant) syntax.

Note that LISP's ability to handle a variable number of arguments is
equivalent to an ability to handle one argument of arbitrary
complexity.  Further, it is (or should be) trivial to extend a
function which is associative, and takes two arguments, to a function
which takes an arbitrary number of arguments [or takes one argument
which is a list of arguments...].

-- 
Raul <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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Subject: Re: scheme [Re: What does an anti-perl look like]
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