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named let -> ???
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 88 14:55:42 PDT
From: Pavel.pa@xerox.com
Before this looks too much like concensus, I don't like the name ``reclet'' at
all and am perfectly happy with it being a special case of the LET syntax.
``reclet'' doesn't sound different enough from ``letrec'' to accomodate the
great difference in semantics. I can't see how the average newcomer to the
language is going to be able to keep them straight.
Well, I worried about this a bit before proposing it. A (very weak)
defense is that the C folks seem to get along having two library functions
names "modf" and "fmod" that do similar but distinct things. Yuk.
--Guy