RE: [Luna-scheme-discuss] contrib + any work going on w luna ?

[Lars B. <la...@la...>]

> Hello -- I have recently discovered Luna Scheme.  I have it 
> building in the IDE on windows and I fixed a bug in named 
> 'let' so that NOW
> 
> (let z ((x 3)) x) is equivalent to
> 
> (letrec ((z (lambda (x) x))) (z 3))
> 
> I would like some help with the following problem:
> 
> (let z ((x 5))
>   (if (= x 0)
>       1
>       (* x (z (- x 1)))
>   ))
> 
> results in 5 instead of the correct 120.  My initial 
> investigations lead me to examine the tail-recursion 
> implementation (I hypothesize that z is being improperly 
> converted to a tail-call).
> 
> Anyone out there?  Anyone interested in helping me?

Unfortunately, I don't think that anybody's actively doing development
on Luna these days :-(

On the other hand, there are currently several scheme-for-dotnet
projects going on, from the PLT folks with their standard interop story
to the Northeastern folks who are porting Larceny to have a .NET
backend. There's nothing completely "real" right now, though, alas, that
I'm aware of...