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From: dab@asylum.SF.CA.US (Dave Bridgham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: EVAL in Scheme
Message-ID: <13781@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 5 Mar 91 03:24:17 GMT
Organization: The Asylum, Belmont, CA
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I'm afraid that I'm about to display some very fundmental ignorance
about how scheme works but this stuff with implementing EVAL by
writing to a file and LOADing the file back in has me puzzled.

Why is

(eval s)

not equivalent to

((lambda () s))

?

					David Bridgham