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Re: [Chicken-users] unbound variable: or


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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