On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Ronald Reynolds <bump...@bumpker.com>wrote:
> I hope I'm not too much of a 'pain in the neck noobie' but what is the > short clean answer about what's going on when we > name a function as part of the definition of itself.. This seems pretty > esoteric to me. What does the system do? > > If "by name a function as part of the definition of itself" you mean, the body of a function contains a call to the function that is being defined: Short answer is, there is nothing special going on - except that define is a special form but define being a special form does not have anything to do being able to recursively call functions. I recommend reading up on metacircular evaluator, (see SICP) - and going through the code by hand/pen/paper. -- C-x C-s, C-x C-c
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