On Sep 18, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Grant Rettke wrote: > 2011/9/18 Racket Noob <racketn...@hotmail.com>: >> In Common Lisp or Clojure REPL, expression '(1 2 3) evaluates to (1 2 3).
No it doesn't. In CL and Clojure, '(1 2 3) evaluates to '(1 2 3) and then the printer turns it into (1 2 3). Now imagine you wish to experiment at the REPL. (What an outrageous idea but some of us do.) In that case, you may wish to reuse a result from some REPL computation in the repl again. Just paste it back in and run. Ouch for Common Lisp. Ouch for Clojure: function expected; given 1 This issue was clarified in a beautiful MIT dissertation around 1980 (Brian Smith) and nailed once and for all. Sadly Brian chose a horrible slogan, which the rest of the MIT lispers didn't understand and so his ideas got buried. I re-discovered them and so did many others. Go figure why Lispers are hung up on a mistake from the 1950s. -- Matthias _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
