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17 Name: Ihope127 : 2005-11-05 22:22 ID:HXdXtvJO

Okay. Let's make the language as referentially transparent as possible... like a list of function primitives that apply themselves to each other, and have the primitives be such that evaluation order doesn't matter.

19 Name: Ihope127 : 2005-11-05 23:32 ID:HXdXtvJO

Well, suppose you have a program like "ei4", and "ei" evaluates to "5" and "54" evaluates to "n". Then, if "i4" evaluated to "T", "eT" would also have to evaluate to "n". Evaluation order just wouldn't matter, and it couldn't in this little paradigm.

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