<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> > FWIW, as one PL educator, I don't find that to be something I wish to<br>> teach to the students who are beginning to learn what is important<br>> about programming languages. I also don't think that a list is a<br>> particularly good representation for a function application in an<br>> implementation and as a mental device I think it can only confuse to<br>> have two distinct concepts mapping in a single concrete thing.<br>> <br>> Robby<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>Ok, maybe this is not something that's important in other programming languages, but it *is* important in lisps. As a lisp educator, how can you *not* to teach this fundamental fact about lisp?<BR> </div></body> </html>