Functional - Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

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Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

Russell McManus

2007-08-14, 7:06 pm

Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> writes:

> Rayiner Hashem wrote:
>
> OCaml takes Lisp's macros and adds:
>
> 1. Native support for any data structure including lazy sequences and trees,
> not just s-exprs.

Why do you think that Lisp code contains only s-exprs? This is false.
You can embed any kind of object in lisp source code, and Lisp macros
can operate on any kind of object.

You don't know Lisp, so stop writing about it as if you do.

Some advice: "When you find yourself in a deep hole, the first thing
to do is stop digging".

-russ

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