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From: | Peter Danenberg |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] unbound variable: or |
Date: | Wed, 27 May 2015 16:46:31 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21+52 (c26dbc7021f4) (2011-07-01) |
Quoth Peter Bex on Boomtime, the 1st of Confusion: > If "or" were a simple procedure, it would first evaluate all its > arguments and then call the procedure. This is also known as applicative vs. normal order; see e.g.: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node85.html Procedures are applicative; macros are normal.
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