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

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Wed Aug 28 12:33:06 EDT 2013

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 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'

When authors use this term what do they cite as being the
authoritative source? How did people come up with using the term?

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