[racket] Pass by value/name/reference

From: Neil Van Dyke (neil at neilvandyke.org)
Date: Mon Jul 21 09:26:51 EDT 2014

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.


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