Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:11:52 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Macros (was Re: Resources to learn common lisp?) References: <110a9pp$ckmk$6@dont-email.me> <877bm4zgsp.fsf@safunu.org> <1159f4c$26g2n$1@dont-email.me> <87se4mquld.fsf@nightsong.com> <115i4sf$uekh$1@dont-email.me> <874igxov3y.fsf@nightsong.com> <115n30i$2hot4$1@dont-email.me> <116aor8$1ubeu$1@paganini.bofh.team> <116atlm$olsn$2@dont-email.me> <116c3ef$254du$1@paganini.bofh.team> <877blgty9a.fsf@gmail.com> <116fsne$2h3iu$3@paganini.bofh.team> <877blgncxm.fsf@nightsong.com> <116hbsn$2os07$1@paganini.bofh.team> <116in0r$3abfo$3@dont-email.me> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:11:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87se3zcg5j.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ICs6dRRLocOOJMegYhe6+ZO8bJ8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-mrvjYd9R2UWdcvHBnMdSjpNDY8v0F6wPyCAazRqL24i5tP3H9BQ3FNIRpl8vXfPiy744/b1Ok6sKPnz!jp2MbhGuOQRY0awoFqAHl8W8ZsE6ytNgqFKZ80jLpJ5xxUI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:61609 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:02:33 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote: > >> I consider continuations to be most distingushing feature of Scheme. > Continuations are cool! I was disappointed to discover they’re not > considered a normal part of Lisp. I never could understand them. > I implemented my own little language which is closely modelled on > PostScript, but drops the antiquated graphics model and adds lexical > binding and continuations. It is true that the combination of an > explicit operand stack with continuations can get a bit mind-boggling > at times ... I think postscript can drive you bonkers alone, continuations dunno? >