If you want X, you know where to find it (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)

[Douglas Alan]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> But as I recall, for example, nothing went away from Scheme when
> hygienic macros were added; some of the old stuff might be "defined
> in terms of HMs" for a language lawyer, but from the POV of 99.44%
> of the language users this is unproductive sophistry.

I beg to differ.  A language is easier to define and to maintain when
much of the language can be defined and implemented in itself.

|>oug