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From: aarons@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Question about eval
Message-ID: <535@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Nov 88 23:03:39 GMT
Organization: School of Cognitive Sciences, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Catching up on netnews....

> From: dfried@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Dan Friedman)
> Message-ID: <13733@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
>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)
>eval

>>>> 5
>1

In Poplog Common Lisp this produces an error.

Aaron Sloman,
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
Univ of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QN, England