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From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
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Subject: Re: what makes scheme?
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Date: 16 Aug 90 02:01:46 GMT
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I think SIOD needs a bit of work before it is genuinely portable.
Basically, it's full of the following sort of code:

   foo(1);

int foo(x); long x; {...}

This violates all sorts of C rules, even in K&R. (Hint: on what sorts of
machines does sizeof(long) == sizeof(int)?)  I thought of fixing the
code, but decided that if I were to do that, I'd end up rewriting it. 

I'm looking forward to psi. I hope it's a bit more portable. 


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