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Re:An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R l... by vincent-toups on Saturday July 06, 2019 @07:36AM (#20369141)
Its definitely the idea. I know it works well enough for a lot of people, but for me, I'm happy to just give up on the dynamic behavior in favor of a simpler universe.

The last thing I want to be thinking about is whether my compiler needs a "hint" that something can be stack allocated, for instance. That is their business, not mine.

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Re:An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R l... by lispm on Saturday July 06, 2019 @02:40PM (#20371113)
Common Lisp as a language standard makes no commitment to the smartness of a compiler. If a certain compiler can figure out things, great, but some compilers might be dumb by design (for example to be fast for interactive use). That's left to implementations.
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