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[Gcl-devel] Re: (+ 2 . 3) => ?
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Camm Maguire |
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[Gcl-devel] Re: (+ 2 . 3) => ? |
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08 Jul 2005 02:20:59 -0400 |
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Greetings, and thanks! Believe is fixed in just created tag t3.
Take care,
Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:
> Probably, just for compatibility with what the compiler does and with other
> implementations of Common Lisp, the interpreter's evaluation of (+ 2 . 3)
> should cause an error rather than return 5.
>
> The ANSI standard says nothing as far as I can tell. It does say:
>
> The subforms in the cdr of the original form are evaluated in left-to-right
>
> blithely overlooking the fact, as best I can tell, that at this point we have
> simply assumed that the form being evaluated is a cons.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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