Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Make temporary stack resizable (fixes #1098)

[John Cowan]

address@hidden scripsit:

> If I have to pass 10 million arguments to a procedure, I'm probably
> doing something wrong.

In general this is true, but `apply` is an exception: when you say
`(apply fn giant-list)` you end up invoking fn with an argument count
that's equal to the length of giant-list.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        address@hidden
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.  --Edsger Dijkstra