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Issue: LAMBDA-FORM (Version 3)
- To: ACW@IVORY.S4CC.Symbolics.COM
- Subject: Issue: LAMBDA-FORM (Version 3)
- From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 88 17:54:44 PDT
- Cc: cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu, Masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- In-reply-to: Allan C. Wechsler's message of Tue, 11 Oct 88 11:16 EDT <19881011151620.6.ACW@ROCKY-MOUNTAINS.S4CC.Symbolics.COM>
re: In Scheme, the operator of a function invocation form has the same
evaluation semantics as the operands. In CL, however, the operator is
not evaluated in the same way that the operands are.
I am concerned lest the new macro called LAMBDA should obscure this
difference in evaluation semantics. A novice Lisp programmer would have
a hard time understanding why the #' is optional in
Hmmmm, having read your reasoning here, now I'm leaning towards rescinding
my tentative approval ("silence gives consent") on this issue.
-- JonL --