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Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by g129774 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:57PM (#39476432)
revised report on scheme which introduced LET to scheme at the time still didn't guarantee left-to-right order of evaluation, "the argument forms can in principle be evaluated in any order. this is unlike the usual LISP left-to-right order". so when introducing LET, which is defined in terms of LAMBDA, the report reiterates that order of evaluation is not guaranteed.
Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by kazinator on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:07PM (#39476843)
Yes, to this day, I think, Scheme doesn't require a particular order for the evaluation of function arguments, like C.