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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: New commercial product written in Lisp looks like a winner.
Date: 1998/08/29
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* Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>
| The above wasn't referring to evaluation of argument forms (which is
| left-to-right, as you say), but to how the function processes the
| arguments that were passed to it.
| 
| See
| <http://www.harlequin.com/education/books/HyperSpec/Body/sec_12-1-1-1.html>
| for the standard's wording.

  oh, OK, it's the fine line between "argument" and "parameter", again.
  12.1.1.1 is very clear.  thanks for the pointer.

#:Erik
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