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On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 12:49:05PM +0100, Klaus Schilling wrote: > In the guile docs, thunk is used to denote a procedure that takes no > arguments. My recollection of a thunk from _Scheme and the Art of Programming_ is that a thunk is a procedure that is called for effect only (no return value). You mean guile uses the term differently? http://www.netmeg.net/jargon/terms/t/thunk.html seems to support this, as it claims that a thunk is a procedure (that does accept args) that instead of returning a value will place it in a known location in memory. -- Peter C. Norton Time comes into it. / Say it. Say it. spacey@pobox.com | The Universe is made of stories, http://spacey.static.inch.com | not of atoms. | Muriel Rukeyser "The Speed of Darkness"