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From: gat@robotics.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Erann Gat)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: FUNCALL question
Message-ID: <390@forsight.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 5 Feb 90 18:37:37 GMT
References: <3277@accuvax.nwu.edu> <1990Jan28.175437.19293@hellgate.utah.edu> <4541@brazos.Rice.edu>
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In article <4541@brazos.Rice.edu>, dorai@titan.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) writes:
> 
> I saw the above rather by accident, so what I say here might take
> something out of context.  Disclaimer done, I don't see how someone
> can claim that Scheme doesn't have a _funcall_ function (procedure).
> Surely you don't just mean that the language standard doesn't mention
> _funcall_?  For _funcall_ is easily retrieved as:
> 
> 	(define funcall (lambda (f . z) (apply f z)))
> 
> So what am I missing?

What you (and Eric Meuhler, author of article 1753) are both missing
is about twenty articles of discussion which preceeded the postings
to which you reply.  In fact, that the Scheme language standard
does not mention FUNCALL is EXACTLY what I meant, and if you had gone
back and read the reference articles (or sent me E-mail) you could have
found this out without broadcasting the fact that you hadn't done your
homework.

E.