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so why aren't you using Dr Scheme directly? [edit in response to pg's edit] to be specific, why don't you have arc include the various high level modularity and semantic abstractions that Dr Scheme exposes? eg 1) a powerful high level macrosystem 2) ways of specifying / enforcing module interfaces 3) everything else that i'm forgetting


1) Because I don't think you want anything more "powerful" than defmacro-style macros. 2) Because at this stage I'm focusing mostly on making programs shorter.


fair enough. On that note, http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/scp91-felleisen.ps.gz is probably the best formal treatment concision in a programming language.




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