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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Question about eval
Message-ID: <3933@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 88 21:57:27 GMT
References: <13733@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <13733@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> dfried@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Dan Friedman) writes:
>Are there any LISP implementations, especially of Common LISP,
>which get 5 instead of 1 as the result of the following run?

>>>> (defun eval (x) 1)

Good grief, what's the point of this beyond proving that your lisp actually
calls a function named eval which isn't coded online in your toplevel loop?
Please explain.