Darren New wrote:

> http://vijaymathew.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/dangerous-designs/

Why write

   (define (addn n) (lambda (k) (+ n k)))

when you can just say

   addn n = (+n)

? ;-)

Seriously though, adding completely new features to a system not 
designed to support them is not an easy thing to do. This is not news. I 
do, however, agree that a simple design that is widely powerful is 
better than a huge raft of special-purpose rules for specific situations.

(This is one of the reasons why Haskell's ever-expanding set of features 
worries me. If people need all these extra features, doesn't that kind 
of indicate that the language is broken?)

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