Subject: Re: Top 10 Language Constructs (Scheme)
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/07/14
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <8ko045$5c9p1$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Dorai Sitaram <ds26@goldshoe.gte.com> wrote:
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| "Bruno Gustavs" <GustavsB@ch.sibt.com> writes:
| > What do you think are the top ten language constructs in Scheme ?
| 
| There are _ten_ language constructs in Scheme...?!
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Yeah, that one stumped me, too. I thought there were only seven: literal
constant, variable, quote, lambda, if, set!, & procedure application.
Everything else is just macros on top of those.

(O.k., so maybe top-level "define" is #8...?)


-Rob

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