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From: lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: weird common lisp feature
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Date: 23 Feb 91 17:45:15 GMT
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Hello out there!
Well, folks, this is where I acknowledge a fatal "Engage Brain Before Mouth"
failure (and hopefully end the rain of flames).  It's quite a task to say
two utterly wrong things in the same sentence :-) but I did it.  (1) I went
and said that Common Lisp does not specify its order of evaluation, but being
a Scheme hacker, I should not have presumed to know the finer details of CL
in the first place, as I was dead wrong.  Second, I had to go further and say
that C *does* specify order of evaluation, when what I had in mind was
expresion evaluation and not function argument evaluation, which I now realize
was pretty much irrelevant to the discussion.  Anyway, I accept the full weight
of my ignorance, and will be more careful to think before I speak (or type)
in the future.  To those of you who flamed me, well, I'd like to defend myself,
but I deserved it.

Yours truly,

Joe Lavinus
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  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia            __| \_/ |_