Re: Common Lisp vs. Scheme

Raymond> Which compilers do this? I know Stalin is very good, but Raymond> it compiles to C as does gambit, so these must have the Raymond> performance hit. Can you really call what `gambit' creates "C"? Wow. It's *not* readable by mortal humans. Raymond> I understand the desire and need for tail-recursive Raymond> algorithms, and I think we should strive to have it. Of course. "Tail recursion wasn't invented in vain." Compare: (while listvar (myfunction (car listvar)) (setq listvar (cdr listvar))) (let loop ((listvar listvar)) (myfunction (car listvar)) (loop (cdr listvar))) ... they look close to the same to me. Will someone post an example of something that named let or letrec can do more elegantly than iterative constructions? I'm too new at this to think of any.