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From: rar@saturn.ads.com (Bob Riemenschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Non Chez Nous
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Date: 15 Mar 91 17:04:16 GMT
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In-Reply-To: dorai@titan.rice.edu's message of 15 Mar 91 16:35:09 GMT

In article <1991Mar15.163509.12130@rice.edu> dorai@titan.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) writes:

=>   In article <4977@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
=>
=>   >I really don't want to sound ungrateful, oh, let's be honest, I *AM*
=>   >ungrateful.  When someone says "I have some Scheme code you can use"
=>   >and I then burn up net cycles FTPing it and then have to spend more
=>   >of my time converting the stuff *to Scheme* than if it had been in
=>   >Common Lisp or Pop in the first place, I am *NOT* grateful.  
=>
=>   Are you saying you find that you have to _rewrite_ the code instead of
=>   defining the few procedures and macros that are not primitive in your
=>   Scheme?  For instance, probably the only non-RRRS Ch*z procedure I
=>   would use is printf, and this is provided by Ken Dickey's format.scm.

Not that I'm as ungrateful as Richard ( :-) ), but there are a number
of non-standard constructs in the SLaTeX code other than the brackets:
eval-when, #\255 and #\254, #!eof, and possibly some other stuff after
clear-tabs.  (MacScheme won't load output-line, and I haven't tried to
figure out why yet -- somehow just seeing that the procedure
definition consists of about 100 lines of completely undocumented code
made me think it might turn out to be a tough job.  Especially given
the rather primitive state of the MacScheme debugger.)  Each is easy
to fix, but combined, they're an annoyance.

							-- rar