From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dotted pair call argument
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:31:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehtoc4ja.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762f014ob.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:23:32 -0500")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> However, (f . (g x y)) is read as (f g x y), so it's impossible for
> 'eval' to distinguish these two cases. Unfortunately, (f g x y) has a
> very different meaning than (apply f (g x y)). The first means to apply
> 'f' to three arguments. The second means to apply 'g' to two arguments,
> and then apply 'f' to the list of arguments resulting from (g x y).
Thanks, Mark. I've often wondered the same thing as David, so I
appreciate your explanation.
Neil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-21 14:03 Dotted pair call argument David Kastrup
2012-02-21 15:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-02-21 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2012-02-21 16:05 ` David Kastrup
2012-02-21 17:23 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-02-21 18:05 ` David Kastrup
2012-02-22 0:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-02-22 9:06 ` David Kastrup
2012-02-21 20:31 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87ehtoc4ja.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net \
--to=neil@ossau.homelinux.net \
--cc=dak@gnu.org \
--cc=guile-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=mhw@netris.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).