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Re: question about r5rs (was Re: pack/unpack)
- To: sen_ml at eccosys dot com
- Subject: Re: question about r5rs (was Re: pack/unpack)
- From: Nicolas Neuss <Nicolas dot Neuss at IWR dot Uni-Heidelberg dot De>
- Date: 02 Feb 2000 10:47:46 +0100
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <m2aelm2x0z.fsf@kamysh.materials.kiev.ua> <20000201010730V.1000@eccosys.com> <20000131192852.A30421@206.31.63.15> <20000201113211U.1000@eccosys.com>
sen_ml@eccosys.com writes:
> crayc> A thunk is a procedure that takes no arguments.
>
> ah, thank you for that explanation! knowing the definition of a thunk
> is very helpful. is there a good glossary of terms around somewhere?
> i would also like to learn what a continuation is. not having had
> much college-level (or above) c.s. training, some of these terms are
> lost on me.
Often
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/
helps. Even if their explanation of "thunk" is not very enlightening,
at least for me.
Niko.