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left to right order of evaluation
- To: "Rodney A. Brooks" <BROOKS%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA>
- Subject: left to right order of evaluation
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@CMU-CS-C.ARPA>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1984 20:07:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Msg of 21 Nov 1984 15:52-EST from Rodney A. Brooks <BROOKS%MIT-OZ at MIT-MC.ARPA>
- Sender: FAHLMAN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA
I believe that the first full paragraph on page 61 of the aluminum
edition specifies left-to-right evaluation of arguments for all function
calls. Or at least, that's the way I read it. I feel certain that it
was everyone's intention that arguments in a normal function call should
be evaluated left-to-right, but I don't recall any discussion of when to
do the symbol-to-function mapping.
-- Scott