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Re:Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: If expressions by Wezl on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:55PM (#24711384)
Why does scheme have explicit booleans? Does this improve performance or is it just for clarity?
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Re:Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: If expressions by tekknolagi on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @03:02PM (#24711471)
I am doing this for clarity. I could have used nil as the false value and not-nil as the true values. Except for wasting pointer space, I don't think it really matters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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