From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: how does recursion work? Date: 16 Oct 2000 02:51:09 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3180653469929513@naggum.net> References: <39EA5ABD.B620F9D5@nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 971664803 7589 195.0.192.66 (16 Oct 2000 02:53:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Oct 2000 02:53:23 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:2237 * Kenny Tilton | 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 -- I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to death your right to say it. -- Tom Stoppard