Re: Interesting: "Lisp as a competitive advantage"

3 May 2001

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(if (not (< x 3))
      (assertion-failed '(< x 3)))
This is a good example, which cannot be implemented in
Haskell.  "Exception.assert" is built in to the ghc compiler, rather than
being defined within the language.  On the other hand, the built in
function gives you the source file and line number rather than the literal
expression; the macro can't do the former.
Yeah, it's a good example, but are there any other uses for such quoting?
If not, then implementing it as a builtin is perfectly adequate.  (Not
trying to pick on Lisp; Lisp is great.  Just hoping for more examples.)

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