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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:23:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Taybin Rutkin <trutkin@physics.clarku.edu>
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To: Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>
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Subject: Re: mutual evaluation
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Steve Wampler wrote:
> The idiom in use in these mutual evaluation examples is simple:
>
> return 2(initialize, compute, cleanup)
>
> which is really pretty clean - most of the time. It's not clean
> when any of initialize, compute, or cleanup is complex (but *that*
> can often be solved by encapsulating the complex action in a
> procedure).
Is 2() a standard library procedure? I don't think I've seen it
before. I didn't know that procedures could have a digit as a name. How
does it work?
Taybin