and in scheme

From: Thomas Schiex <tschiex_at_toulouse.inra.fr>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 17:29:11 +0200 (MET DST)

I'd say that "and" is a so-called "syntactical form" and not a closure since
it does not systematically evaluates its arguments (as soon as one of the
arguments has value #f, it stops). You can not apply syntactical forms:
define, lambda, cond...

        Thomas
Received on Wed Apr 03 1996 - 17:31:32 CEST

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