Date: | Mon Nov 2 19:04:35 1999 | |
Subject: | news-relayFrom: pop@roo.cs.umass.edu (Robin Popplestone) | |
From: | PP User | |
Volume-ID: | 991102.06 |
Another gripe I have is that POP-11 doesn't let me use a protected identifier as a lexical local define fred(); lvars exp = 23; enddefine; This seems unreasonable, and undesirable, 'cos it's handy to use familiar signs, e.g.: define average(x,y,Algebra) let nonop + = Algebra("+"), nonop / = Algebra("/") in (x+y)/2 endlet enddefine; Robin. |