[racket-dev] OT: stump misunderstands Scheme?

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>> You know, it's not inconceivable such a thing could happen if you had
>> a PURELY syntactic *interpreter*.
>>
>> I remember when I got to Brown, they were using one of those weirdo
>> Scheme interpreters, and had come to conclusions about the semantics
>> of Scheme on the basis of its behavior.  Things like you could run
>>
>> ('(lambda (x) x) 3)
>>
>> and it would evaluate to 3 because of the way the interpreter was structured.
>>
>> Now if Aaron ran one of those to test his code...
>
> I'm pretty sure that this is also how the original Lisp interpreter
> from McCarthy's paper worked.

If so, it was a bug on my part.

:P

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