From: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
To: Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca>,
Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com>, guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Somehow I have got this "thunk" thing wrong.
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 17:55:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58f9bcc8-a241-66d0-2396-c6dabb6ba273@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfb1yvfx.fsf@clara>
On 06.03.2021 01:31, Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
wrote:
> You've quoted the whole s-exp. Which means lambda is never applied.
> You have to apply lambda in order to create a procedure.
Just a bit of pedantry on the terms: 'lambda' is not "applied" anyway,
because it's a special form and not a procedure.
The term "apply" is used when referring to procedures. E.g. you would
apply 'list', 'cons', 'vector-ref' and so on, but you wouldn't apply
'lambda', 'if', 'define' and so on.
In other words, if you can pass it as an argument to 'apply', you can
"apply" it. E.g. '(apply lambda (list ...))' is invalid syntax.
I think the term "evaluate" would be preferred here, as in: "the
'lambda' is quoted so it won't be evaluated."
- Taylan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-06 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-06 0:05 Somehow I have got this "thunk" thing wrong Tim Meehan
2021-03-06 0:26 ` Christopher Baines
2021-03-06 3:40 ` Tim Meehan
2021-03-06 3:43 ` Tim Meehan
2021-03-06 0:31 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2021-03-06 0:48 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2021-03-06 16:55 ` Taylan Kammer [this message]
2021-03-06 17:16 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
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