About {} and its limits
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Feb 10 17:00:03 UTC 2005
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Stef
On 10 févr. 05, at 17:31, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> 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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