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On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 01:28:38PM -0500, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 12:49:05PM +0100, Klaus Schilling wrote: > > In the guile docs, thunk is used to denote a procedure that takes no > > arguments. > > My recollection of a thunk from _Scheme and the Art of Programming_ is > that a thunk is a procedure that is called for effect only (no return > value). You mean guile uses the term differently? My memory was wrong. It is defined as a procedure of no args in _Scheme and the Art_. -- Peter C. Norton Time comes into it. / Say it. Say it. spacey@pobox.com | The Universe is made of stories, http://spacey.static.inch.com | not of atoms. | Muriel Rukeyser "The Speed of Darkness"