Re: Creating recursive customization types / widgets

[Kevin Rodgers]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     'lazy' and 'delayed' are good because they describe how the widget
>     accomplish its task.  But I now believe 'recursive' is best, because
>     it described what the task is.  Also 
>
>       (define-widget 'binary-tree 'recursive ...)
>
>     reads well:  A binary tree is a recursive datastructure with the
>     following attributes ...
>
> That use is recursive, but the widget doesn't require you to use
> recursion.  Its essence is lazy or delayed evaluation.  So I think
> that should be the name.

Can widgets have aliases, like variables and functions?


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Kevin Rodgers