The Function of FUNCTION in LISP, or Why the FUNARG Problem Should be Called the Environment Problem

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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moses, Joel
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5854