[CM] random stream with lists?

[Orm Finnendahl]

Am 24. September 2003, 10:25 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Rick Taube:
>
> You dont have to port it -- its loaded automaticall into any CL image 
> you build cm in unless you do (push :no-scheme *features*) first. look 
> at src/scheme.lisp. But Its really a 'sugar coating' -- you get to use 
> scheme procedure names, define, etc. but of course its not really 
> scheme, ie (define (foo ...) ...) turns into (defun foo (...) ...) and 
> (define foo 1) becomes (defparameter foo 1).  In fact the define case 
> is the worse case: in Scheme define creates a lexical variable but in 
> CL its a defun and a special variable. scheme.lisp is provided so that 
> cm code can be more "portable" between CL and Scheme, not to invent 
> scheme in cl. 

That's very handy nevertheless. I'll check it out for my classes. If
people can't get around using call-with-current-continuation or
letrec, they will have to use guile then (but if they are at that
point I guess it doesn't matter to them anymore which language they
use ;-)

--
Orm

P.S.: BTW: Your book is excellent.