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Hello all, Procedures without arguments can be used to implement promises, call-by-name and more. See for example the beautiful AI memo 353, March 1976, 41 pages, Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative, Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/0-499/AIM-353.ps The Hacker's dictionary has something about the history of the term ``thunk'', I think (no pun intended). Talking about fancy names, does anybody know why there seems to be a tendency towards ``less friendly'' names for Scheme/Lisp systems lately (or is it just me ;-) Rabbit nil T Guile Liar Larceny Stalin (I don't know enough Tolkien to place Hobbit in this subjective ranking). regards, Roland