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#f = #none ?
- To: rwk@crl.dec.com
- Subject: #f = #none ?
- From: Stavros Macrakis <macrakis@osf.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:31:10 -0500
- Cc: info-dylan@cambridge.apple.com
- Cc: cfry@MIT.EDU, samp@kurz-ai.com
- In-reply-to: Bob Kerns's message of Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:29:40 -0500 <9211210129.AA18179@taunton.crl.dec.com>
- Sender: macrakis@osf.org
If our problem is getting to explcitly use a default value, how
about a function that, given the name of a function and the
name of one of its arguments, returns the value of the default
for that function.
I like this, a lot. Information should be explicit and
represented, not closed and hidden.
In effect, this makes keyword names part of the dynamic structure of
the language, not just its static structure. I don't like this,
because it is using environment operations (or "meta-operations" if
you prefer) as ordinary operations. Environments need dynamic
operations on argument lists; running code should not.
-s