The function of FUNCTION in LISP or why the FUNARG problem should be called the environment problem
โ Scribed by Moses, Joel
- Book ID
- 111652363
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Year
- 1970
- Weight
- 586 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-5824
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โฆ Synopsis
A problem common to many powerful programming languages arises when one has to determine what values to assign to free variables in functions. Different implementational approaches which attempt to solve the problem are considered. The discussion concentrates on LISP implementations and points out why most current LISP systems are not as general as the original LISP 1.5 system. Readers not familiar with LISP should be able to read this paper without difficulty since we have tried to couch the argument in ALGOL-like terms as much as possible.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
A differential game is considered in which the time until a point reaches a target set is the pay functional. The sufficient conditions for the given discontinuous function to be identical with the value function of the game are obtained. The conditions are formulated in terms of the classical conce