[racket] Pass by value/name/reference
Matthias Felleisen wrote at 07/21/2014 09:10 AM:
> call-by-value/pass-by-worth
Especially since Pascal was the first place that I was exposed to
different kinds of calling conventions, I've been waiting for this
thread to mention some version of the Niklaus Wirth joke:
>
> Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way
> ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's
> Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans
> call him by value.
>
> -- Introduction by Adriaan van Wijngaarden at the IFIP Congress
> (1965).
Neil V.