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just use amdefine

edit: not sure why people don't like amdefine

Paul Graham is wrong. Downvote discussion helps. Asking for feedback is something we want to encourage.

> just use amdefine

That's unhelpful, and hardly helps with today's problems.

We didn't need classes, because we had objects. You could create your own constructors and methods. Why did we need anything more?

Why does Scheme today not just use McCarthy's original 7 special forms?

A discussion about the differences of modules today, and where you can rely on compatibility is a good thing that helps with shaping the future.

> stop voting this post down

Don't mention downvotes. It isn't helpful to discussion, and is sort of against HNs guidelines. It will earn you more. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You can't vote posts down on HN. If it has low votes it just means people aren't interested enough to vote up.

There are downvotes on HN, you just need to reach some karma (500 if I'm correct) before being able to do so.

That is for comments, he said posts. You cannot vote down posts (submissions) at all. I'm obviously aware of the downvote button on comments, and thanks to those of you who tried to prove a point by hitting yours on this one.

Once one has more than 500 karma one gets a downvote button..

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