[plt-scheme] Lazy evaluation and tail calls

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 8 20:44:33 EST 2009

On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:53 PM, James Coglan wrote:

>  I've since moved onto implementing continuations, and I had enough  
> trouble getting my head around the applicative order version that I  
> think trying to implement continuations for normal order would make  
> my head explode...

James, just for the record from a semanticist: the terms 'applicative  
order' and 'normal order' make NO SENSE whatsoever in the world of  
PLs. Period. -- Matthias

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