Subject: Re: Lisp & SICP
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/05/16
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3167480499414391@naggum.no>

* Erik Naggum
| Not using funcall means that the first position is never "stable"
| and can never be trusted.  This is a semantic difference in the
| language communicated to the human readers.

* Eli Barzilay <eli@mojave.cs.cornell.edu>
| Except that you can modify functions, and you have lexical bindings
| for functions, which makes it exactly as "stable" as plain variables.

  I take exception with "exactly as", but I get the impression that
  you still think I'm discussing Scheme in that sentence, where I'm
  contrasting real Lisps (which have funcall) to Scheme.

#:Erik
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