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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:55:53 GMT
Local: Tues, Jul 17 2001 7:55 am
Subject: Re: special forms.
* Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <fro...@acm.org>
> You are right that strictly functionally speaking, special forms are Not so. Take let as the favorite example of a special form that is very > not necessary. necessary in any functional paradigm. What may be true for if is not true for forms that in addition to require special evaluation rules of subforms, imposes _structure_ on its subforms that "violate" the normal evaluation rules. In fact, if is a very special case special operator. It is better to begin with something like let and then deduce if, than to begin with if and try to get anywhere at all. #:Erik You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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