[plt-scheme] Help with #0 and #0# notation in the REPL
Robby Findler wrote:
>> Why was this change made?
>
> It simplifies the compiler and tools that operate on program source if
> there are no cycles in what they have to process (it isn't a normal
> thing to think about that a program's AST is cyclic!) and so we
> decided to experiment with leaving it out.
Besides syntactically recursive programs doesn't give you more
expressive power. What I am talking about?
<http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/Papers/synrec.ps.gz>
[Yes, slightly off-topic but close enough ;-) ]
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Jens Axel Søgaard