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Re: what does 'thunk' mean?


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_.

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