Re: New commercial product written in Lisp looks like a winner.

Subject: Re: New commercial product written in Lisp looks like a winner.
From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/08/27
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3113247040185565@naggum.no>

* Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>
| Note that Common Lisp permits implementations to reorder argument
| processing based on the mathematical associativity rules, even though the
| computer operations are not necessarily associative.

  I thought Common Lisp had strict left-to-right evaluation rules, as per
  3.1.2.1.2.3 Function Forms.  where does the standard say what you say?

#:Erik
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