Subject: Re: how does recursion work?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 16 Oct 2000 02:51:09 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3180653469929513@naggum.net>

* Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
| ACL does not, because all that happens at this point is that a note
| is made to call something called 'b at runtime.

  'b as read as (quote b)?  Whatever does _quote_ do in this context?

  I'll (reluctantly :) have to side with Barry Margolin on this one:
  People who think that it makes sense to write #'do and the like in
  text in order to half-pretend to be writing code in Lisp do more
  harm than good, and just as #'do doesn't even work, nobody calls 'b
  as a function.  This is actually a case where the call is #'b, but
  in the interest of sanity, just keep it simple: It calls b.

#:Erik
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