[racket] applicative order -- topic was: Re: Help with exception raising and testing

On Aug 27, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Galler wrote:

> Racket uses applicative order


For the record, there is no such thing as 'applicative order.' There is call-by-value and there is a humongous misunderstanding called 'applicative order' in the 1960s and 1970s that was fixed by Plotkin's 1973 paper on "call-by-name, call-by-value, and the lc" in TCS. There are stone-aged authors who can't resist using this terminology but we should be enlightened enough to know that this is a bogus term w/o well-defined meaning :-) 

-- Matthias (heart-felt as you can tell)