Re: [Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal

[Felix Winkelmann]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:33:59 +0200

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 04:26:58AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>> Peter Bex scripsit:
>> 
>> > I'd especially appreciate feedback on the core library names and
>> > the things to kill from core.  I will be expanding this page over the
>> > next few days/weeks.
>> 
>> I've added lots of comments.  Feel free to merge them in or strike them out.
> 
> Thank you for the feedback.  I've added my replies inline.  I've added
> fluid-let to the list of things to be removed.  It's dangerously unsafe,
> and it is completely unnecessary to have it in core.  There are a handful
> of uses of it in core that are potentially disastrous, so we should
> rewrite those bits.

Peter, it's just a binding construct and very useful in certain
situations (like binding lexically visible variables in nested
procedures).


felix