[plt-scheme] if without third argument

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 12:40:11 EDT 2008

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Tamas K Papp <tpapp at princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 09:55:50AM -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
>> You might try the pretty big language in DrScheme.
>
> Is it possible to get that without the GUI (just the command line)?  I
> tried but could find no options for that.
>
>> I'm sorry that I'm not familiar with LAML, but worst comes to worst,
>> if you're not willing to port it and its authors are also not willing
>> to port it, v372 should continue to work. I'm sorry that I don't have
>> the time myself to do that job.
>
> I don't see the point in porting something that conforms to a standard
> to some dialect that does not, so I am not even going to raise this to
> the author...

If it conforms to a standard, use that language. I've pointed you to
how to run both r5rs and r6rs and you told me it doesn't run in
either.

Of course, it is quite difficult to write a (even standards
conformant) r5rs program that is portable, but that's an entirely
different question.

Robby


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