yang@darmstadt.gmd.de (Zhiwei Yang) (06/29/91)
Hi,
Maybe a silly question.
Could anyone tell me
If the following are the same definition for Lambda expression,
(lambda argument-list body)
(lambda lambda-list . body) ?
The former is defined by Deborah G. Tatar in his Book
"Common lisp -- A programmer's Guid" at page 175,
and the last is defined by Guy L. Steele JR. in his
Book "Common lisp -- the Language" at page 59.
Thanks in advance!
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6100 Darmstadt | German National Research Center for Computer Sciencebarmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (06/30/91)
In article <4922@darmstadt.gmd.de> yang@darmstadt.gmd.de (Zhiwei Yang) writes: > If the following are the same definition for Lambda expression, > > (lambda argument-list body) > > (lambda lambda-list . body) ? > > The former is defined by Deborah G. Tatar in his Book >"Common lisp -- A programmer's Guid" at page 175, > and the last is defined by Guy L. Steele JR. in his >Book "Common lisp -- the Language" at page 59. The second definition is correct. Some people use the term "body" to indicate an arbitrary number of forms, and that was probably Tatar's intention. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar