[plt-scheme] Understanding begin

Despite Chongkai's more detailed message, I would say yes,
this is a perfectly good way to understand it.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> While studying Scheme, I had wondered how 'begin' might reduce to
> something simpler.
>
> While reading "Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative", I see that  in
> Scheme, because of eager evaluation (aka call-by-value aka applicative
> order), lambda can be used to model imperative statements. So, these
> expressions are equivalent (each prints 'abc'):
>
> (begin
>  (display 'a)
>  (display 'b)
>  (display 'c))
>
> ((lambda (x) ((lambda (x) (display 'c)) (display 'b))) (display 'a))
>
> Is this the right way to understand begin? To implement it?
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