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From: e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: weird common lisp feature
Keywords: read, read-line
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Date: 21 Feb 91 04:17:18 GMT
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Can anyone tell me why foo1 below appears to execute the read-line
before the print, but foo2 executes the print before the read?

(defun foo1 () (print 'hello) (read-line))
(defun foo2 () (print 'hello) (read))

Thanks.




Colin Allen				e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu
Department of Philosophy
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