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<jfred>I'm finally going through SICP again and the bit in 1.3.2 about `let` being sugar for using a lambda expression to bind some local variables just blew my mind a little bit

<flatwhatson>lambdas all the way down

<dpk>One Thing to name them all, One Thing to define them. / One Thing to place them in environments and bind them,

<dpk>In the Lambda Order they are all first-class.

<haugh>jfred, I had the same experience. Then I got my mind blown again when I realized that guile does that in the optimizer, not at expansion time

<dpk>yeah, i don’t get why Guile considers ‘let’ a primitive

<dpk>probably hysterical raisins. maybe wingo can explain

<haugh>I think it's one of those things you have to speak CPS to understand

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