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From: | Matt Gushee |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] unbound variable: or |
Date: | Wed, 27 May 2015 16:45:28 -0600 |
Quoth Peter Bex on Boomtime, the 1st of Confusion:
> If "or" were a simple procedure, it would first evaluate all its
> arguments and then call the procedure.
This is also known as applicative vs. normal order; see e.g.:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node85.html
Procedures are applicative; macros are normal.
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