;)

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
>