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From: vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney)
Subject: Re: Which one, Lisp or Scheme?
In-Reply-To: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de's message of 31 Jan 1997 08:28:26 +0100
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In article <y9liv4ewbfp.fsf@modas.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

> 
> Erik> you should have asked a question.  the above is as untrue as you can get.
> Erik> however, functions aren't normally values of variables.  this is seldom as
> Erik> useful as Schemers think it is.
> 
> Erik, you should have asked a question.  It is immensely useful all
> the time.  I'd be happy to send to oodles of source code where having
> to use funcall would greatly screw up the code.  Admittedly, code that
> CL programmers would 
> 

Instead of oodles, could you just post one good example in Scheme?  I'm not
doubting, I would just like to see other peoples view of how funcall is not
as good as.  Thanks.

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