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On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:15:24AM +0100, Klaus Schilling wrote: > David Welton writes: > > > > I would put my 'difficulties with scheme' issues in 2 categories: 1. > > it really *is* different from everything else I've done.. I > > definitely fumed a bit when I discovered that there was no 'while' > > built into the language (and appluaded the fact that guile does have > > one), and 2. the fact that, except for some things here and there like > > slib and guile, scheme doesn't seem aimed so much at the "everyday > > programming tasks" crowd, like Perl, Python, Tcl, etc.. I think Guile > > will help change this. > > 'while' can be easily replaced with recursion or a do construct, I don't see > any reason for missing it. Well, my point was more regarding the difficulties of learning scheme for those of us who started out with more C oriented things. While is pretty much a given in those languages. As someone who prefers to wade in and sort out the details as I go, it was a bit disconcerting to find myself unable to construct a simple loop. Of course, I've since figured it out:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org