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- Subject: Re: Good introductory texts ? (was Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?)
- From: Alex Queiroz <asandroq@...>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:39:48 +0000
Hallo Mario,
On 9/23/09, Mario Domenech Goulart <mario.goulart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
> Strictly speaking, not everything, in fact. Definitions and syntax
> definitions are not expressions, according to R5RS:
> http://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-8.html#%_chap_5
>
I didn't know you were a subscriber to this list. :) Anyway, I
know Scheme is not as pure as Haskell (for instance set! is also
problematic, its return value is unspecified), but it's halfway there.
--
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/