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Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Using #true and #false everywhere? |
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Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:52:34 +0200 |
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:59:40AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> What material are you referring to? SICP & co.?
>
> I simply used my favourite search engine with something such as
> scheme language boolean
OK. Note that it’s a different topic though: someone going through the
Guix manual or looking at package definitions would have no reason to
search for that when they see “#true”, for example.
> In my case the first link is to the racket manual:
> https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/booleans.html
>
> Or this:
> https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/02sp/scheme/basics.html
>
> Or the Wikipedia entry:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29
>
> Any kind of search quickly reveals that booleans in Scheme are coded
> using #t and #f; whereas to find #true and #false, my impression is that
> one already needs to know that these are possibilities. I find their use
> more confusing than helpful.
If we change the Guix (and Guile?) manual to use #true and #false
consistently, we can give you something different to see.
We can even do SEO so that Racket doesn’t show up early (heck, they
chose not to call it a Scheme implementation :-)). Though it saddens me
that the programming landscape is shaped by what search engines provide…
Ludo’.
Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, Vagrant Cascadian, 2020/10/16
Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, Danny Milosavljevic, 2020/10/16
Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, Andreas Enge, 2020/10/20
- Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/20
- Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, zimoun, 2020/10/20
- Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2020/10/20
- Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, zimoun, 2020/10/20
- Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2020/10/20
- Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?, zimoun, 2020/10/20