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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: Definition of Lambda expression
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.053524.18944@Think.COM>
Keywords: Lisp, Common lisp
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References: <4922@darmstadt.gmd.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 91 05:35:24 GMT
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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.

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