<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/9 Matthias Felleisen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:53 PM, James Coglan wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span>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...<span> </span></span></blockquote>
</div><br></div><div>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</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br><br>Could you elaborate? These are terms I picked up learning Scheme from SICP but have also seen any number of confusing descriptions of various calling semantics. <br></div></div><br>