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diff --git a/mew.svnwiki b/mew.svnwiki index 8cad5c3..1858fdd 100644 --- a/mew.svnwiki +++ b/mew.svnwiki @@ -2,6 +2,34 @@ Mew is a library targetting R5RS/R7RS scheme, which provides some conveniences inspired from Goo, Clojure and Arc to allow writing more compact code. + +== Design goals + +Mew, in its current iteration, is designed as a Scheme library. Even +though a program written in Mew will look quite different to a plain +Scheme program, code is compatible, and Scheme code can generally live +inside a Mew program, and Mew can load Scheme libraries. Extra care +has been taken to not reuse identifiers found in important SRFIs. + +Mew code is tight code, commonly used Mew identifiers are short. + +Mew uses a few features of R7RS internally, but does not require using +R7RS. + +Mew targets Chicken Scheme currently but should be easy to port to +other Scheme implementations. + +Mew is multi-paradigm: it simplifies both writing imperative and +functional code. + +Mew uses SRFI-158 (Generators and Accumulators) for generic functions +on enumerable structures. + +Mew generally uses {{equal?}} as equality predicate. + +Mew never mutates lists. + + == Re-Exports Mew re-exports |