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From: drichter@owlnet.rice.edu (David Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: Why can't we have ... ?
Date: 16 Sep 1994 22:49:12 GMT
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In article <AAS.94Sep15100427@velociraptor.nr.no>, aas@velociraptor.nr.no (Gisle Aas) writes:
[a list of requests for Beta]

Of your 15 requests, the following 6 could be handled by a hygenic
macro system such as many implementations of Scheme have.  If Beta
doesn't have such a system, then it apparently needs one.  But, one
must be sure that it's done right. :-)

|> 3) Simpler if-syntax for the common case
|> 4) And/Or short-circuit boolean expressions (as in C).
|> 6) Alternative arrow operator which goes the other way.
|> 7) Contructors (instead of .init conventions).
|> 10) Send values to (or read values from) INNER.
|> 12) Be able to say [loop (#while ... #);] more compactly

David