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From: sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Named constants in Scheme
Message-ID: <6260009@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 21 May 91 15:09:52 GMT
References: <1991May18.203022.9325@snitor.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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The named constant solution Doug writes about is very natural for Scheme.
Pop11 adopts essentially this solution without any significant drawbacks.
Note that one can only optimise (* pi 2) given that '*' is side-effect free
and the result is immutable and uniquely allocated.

Steve