[Gcl-devel] Re: (+ 2 . 3) => ?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks! Believe is fixed in just created tag t3.

Take care,

Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:

> Probably, just for compatibility with what the compiler does and with other
> implementations of Common Lisp, the interpreter's evaluation of (+ 2 . 3)
> should cause an error rather than return 5.
> 
> The ANSI standard says nothing as far as I can tell.  It does say:
> 
>   The subforms in the cdr of the original form are evaluated in left-to-right
> 
> blithely overlooking the fact, as best I can tell, that at this point we have
> simply assumed that the form being evaluated is a cons.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 

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