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Robby Findler scripsit:
> > This makes programs much more difficult to understand, and this
> > for the sole reason of saving one to write two parens. I don't
> > think this is worth it.
>
> Seems like a pretty abstract argument, esp. when this seems to be
> common practice and without it, one cannot implement classes or units
> as macros.
Of course you can. You just can't pretend that something is a Scheme-level
variable when in fact it's a member of a class.
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