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- From: fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
- Subject: Summary: Why no eval function in scheme?
- In-Reply-To: fox@cs.nyu.edu's message of Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:24:32 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:11:59 GMT
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- It turns out that the reason there has been no eval in the
- scheme standard is due to the standards folks having difficulty
- agreeing on the semantics. There should be an EVAL in the
- fifth revision. Most Schemes do provide an eval function, but
- it seems the one I use does not.
-
- It is not the case that eval is omitted so that the runtime
- environment is smaller, since LOAD requires the same machinery
- and is an essential procedure.
-
- Thanks to all those who replied.
-