Re: Consider the package expr evaluates to.

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi,

address@hidden writes:

> 'Expression is evaluated'??
> Maybe better is 'the package that matches expression'?

No, that's definitely not right.  That wording suggests some kind of
pattern matching, which is not what's happening at all.  Evaluation is a
process that takes an expression and produces a value.  For example,
(+ 1 2) is an expression that evaluates to 3.  The expression is a list
with three elements: the symbol +, the number 1, and the number 2.  The
result of evaluating that expression is the number 3.

> 'Consider' - here it means 'to use'. But dictionary meaning of
> 'consider' is 'think about', 'regard' [1], so this is hard for
> understanding.

I agree that the word "consider" is a bad choice in that sentence.
It would be better to change "consider" to "use".

     Thanks,
       Mark