From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Documentation on B language?
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:43:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160308194348.GK32247@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAObyg6a0sPpxQ3ENDVj+hvOc_nU=bE-+5Hf8_9ftdoDMvKPZpg@mail.gmail.com>
Andru Luvisi scripsit:
> How were they spelled in Lisp 1.5? The manual lists add1 and sub1, but says
> nothing about them modifying the value of a variable.
They may not have been in the very earliest 1.5, but rather in one of the
many 1.5 and 1.6 offshoots (which are documented mostly, if at all,
in unsearchable PDFs), probably spelled inc and dec. The add1 and sub1
functions (later spelled 1+ and 1-) have always been pure functional.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-08 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 13:01 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-08 18:00 ` John Cowan
2016-03-08 19:10 ` Andru Luvisi
2016-03-08 19:43 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-03-08 23:13 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-03-09 11:09 ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-03-09 11:29 ` Brantley Coile
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-09 21:34 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-09 21:43 ` John Cowan
2016-03-10 18:09 ` scj
2016-03-09 12:34 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-07 0:57 Norman Wilson
2016-03-07 8:39 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2016-03-07 0:20 Warren Toomey
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