Subject: Re: how does recursion work? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: 16 Oct 2000 02:51:09 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3180653469929513@naggum.net> * Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com> | ACL does not, because all that happens at this point is that a note | is made to call something called 'b at runtime. 'b as read as (quote b)? Whatever does _quote_ do in this context? I'll (reluctantly :) have to side with Barry Margolin on this one: People who think that it makes sense to write #'do and the like in text in order to half-pretend to be writing code in Lisp do more harm than good, and just as #'do doesn't even work, nobody calls 'b as a function. This is actually a case where the call is #'b, but in the interest of sanity, just keep it simple: It calls b. #:Erik -- I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to death your right to say it. -- Tom Stoppard