[plt-scheme] a few questions (was: Scheme questions?)

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 4 20:08:01 EST 2005

On Dec 4, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Bill Wood wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 14:30 -0800, Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
>    . . .
>> Is LABELS a special form in some  version of scheme, or something
>> bound by an enclosing let? Something else?
>
> Just a historical note:

Someone should look up the first Scheme report.

> I don't know if the Y combinator had been devised when McCarthy was
> trying to computerize recursion theory,

1930s.

-- Matthias



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