-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > > Bill White: >> >> I must admit, scheme leaves me somewhat cold. I once wrote a prototype >> of the symbol table for an Ada compiler in scheme, and I grew to dread >> it as a tool. It turns out to be hard to program without global >> variables. > > Scheme has global variables. I have to admit, I don't remember the details. I know that whenever I wanted to put something in a global variable, some closure had been created before the variable was set, and couldn't look it up when I wanted it to be looked up. It's probably no worse than C++, but it was annoying. I have also decided strong typing is really a good idea. I got really tired of passing a list which represented a symbol into a function which represented, say, a generic binding. You don't really know if the value you have passed in is the wrong type until things blow up. I know, if I never made any mistakes it would not be a problem, that's not going to happen soon. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG1adgTi5xeapaTM0RAosvAJ43+6wn0EaOACH8Y1Fu8Ki4p+0qAQCgjAFo jx58pjdqrzcgPVChpCKLIRE= =T1/8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
