About {} and its limits
Tony Garnock-Jones
tonyg at lshift.net
Thu Feb 10 16:31:09 UTC 2005
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> And, could any native speaker confirm "self-evaluating" is even the
> correct term to use?
Yes, it's correct, and used by other languages - see for instance
Scheme's R5RS,
http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-7.html#%_sec_4.1.2,
where mention is made of expressions which "evaluate ``to themselves''".
Lots of the writing about Scheme uses the literal term
"self-evaluating", too.
(Stef even wrote "self-evaluating representation" which hints at a
cryptic reference to R5RS's notion of external representation...)
Tony
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