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Re: question about r5rs (was Re: pack/unpack)


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.

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