[plt-scheme] Native code generation and immutable pairs

On Mar 11, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Jim Blandy wrote:

> It bothers me that the more I think about this stuff, the more I 
> appreciate ML...

There is nothing wrong with liking ML. They have a lot of things right. 
Schemers could learn a lot from them, if they didn't have this 
knee=jerk reaction "types are silly." But note the disagreement between 
SML and OCAML. The former supports ref cells only; the latter supports 
mutable slots in an structure, but structures are immutable by default. 
OCAML's model is superior to SML's for pragmatics. SML's is superior to 
Scheme and friends by theory (See Crank & Felleisen, POPL 9x). In this 
particular case, Scheme is suffering from conflating allocation and 
parameterization (lambda parameters). It's never too late too learn 
should be the Scheme motto.

-- Matthias