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bug#41353: (thunk? (const 1))
From: |
Jan Synacek |
Subject: |
bug#41353: (thunk? (const 1)) |
Date: |
Sun, 17 May 2020 16:46:40 +0200 |
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:09 PM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think this is more a matter of the documentation being not quite right:
>
> -- Scheme Procedure: thunk? obj
> -- C Function: scm_thunk_p (obj)
> Return ‘#t’ if OBJ is a thunk—a procedure that does not accept
> arguments.
>
> "if OBJ can serve as a thunk—a procedure called without arguments."
>
> Note that (thunk? (lambda x x)) also returns #t and that ((const 1))
> returns 1.
But both (lambda x ...) and (const whatever) are still a procedure that accepts
an argument, aren't they? My understanding of thunk is (lambda () ...),
because that's a procedure that takes zero arguments.