Re: [Scheme-reports] Procedural equivalence: the last debate

[Alex Shinn <alexshinn@x>]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Alan Watson <alan@x> wrote:

> Using addresses wouldn't work, generate-unique-value
> would have to increment a global counter (which need
> not be unique to this location).  Though if the counter
> ever overflows into a bignum all optimization is lost.

Sure, just

(define (generate-unique-value) (cons #t #t))

or something similar.

Naturally, but then it's faster to just cons up the procedure to begin with.

-- 

Alex

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