Re: What's wrong with Common Lisp's lambda ?

Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In article <o0ven89fqi.fsf@xxxxxxxxx>, Duane Rettig <duane@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Looks like a CPS issue to me, not a lambda issue (at least directly).

Since CL doesn't have continuations, I'm not sure there's really much of
a distinction. Lambda is the only way to make a closure, and the point
is that closures can't be used to re-enter a control context that has
been exited.

Yes, of course. My comment is directed toward the possible
interpretation of a statement like "something is wrong with CL lambda"
as being something revelationary; instead it falls under the subset of
things not specified by CL because CL doesn't specify continuations/CPS.

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