Or Alternatively ... ? Paul Schlie (08 Apr 2006 14:55 UTC)
Re: Or Alternatively ... ? Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (08 Apr 2006 15:27 UTC)
Re: Or Alternatively ... ? Paul Schlie (08 Apr 2006 17:19 UTC)

Re: Or Alternatively ... ? Paul Schlie 08 Apr 2006 17:19 UTC

> From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <xxxxxx@knm.org.pl>
>> Paul Schlie <xxxxxx@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>   (define some-values '(1 2 3))
>>
>>   (+ . some-values) :: (+ 1 2 3) => 6
>>
>>   (+ . some-values . '(10 20)) :: (+ 1 2 3 10 20) => 36
>
> This syntax is not compatible with S-expressions.
> (it's not an external representation of data),
> so Scheme will not adopt it.

- Understood, however some simpler syntactic alternative
  to it's otherwise semantic equivalent would be nice, as:

    (eval `(+ ,@ some-values ,@ '(10 20))) => 36

  feels a bit cumbersome?

  (although correspondingly an alternative to the use of values ...)