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Tim Bradshaw  
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 More options Oct 29 2002, 8:35 am
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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
Date: 29 Oct 2002 12:49:23 +0000
Local: Tues, Oct 29 2002 7:49 am
Subject: Re: Difference between LISP and C++
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* Wade Humeniuk wrote:
> After Macro expansion time (which is before evaluation time) all
> compound Lisp forms are function forms.  All macros have been
> expanded and are ready to run.

No, this is not so.  After macros are expanded, all compound forms are
either function applications or special forms.  Special forms are
compound forms whose first element is a special operator, and which
have idiosyncratic syntax.  There is a small, fixed, number of special
operators in the language.

--tim


 
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