From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Lisp & SICP Date: 2000/05/15 Message-ID: <3167393469185860@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 623652428 References: <391E9C25.94F5C377@uniserve.com> <8fo800$cgl$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8fp3t6$b2r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 958404875 14377 195.0.192.66 (15 May 2000 15:34:35 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 May 2000 15:34:35 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * John Clonts -> Andrew Cooke | I think I understand what you mean that scheme has the single | namespace where lisp has various namespaces. But, why does it | follow that "hence no need for apply etc"? He's seriously confused. It's _funcall_ that's missing from Scheme. It obviously still needs, and has, apply, which is why omitting funcall is just plain silly. (Note to Scheme zealots: Just because you can define it doesn't mean the _language_ has it. Thank you.) #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.