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    <h1>lisp.rb</h1>
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      <td>lib/carat/lisp.rb
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      <td><strong>Last Update:</strong></td>
      <td>Tue Apr 12 12:16:23 EDT 2005</td>
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      <h1><a href="../../../classes/Lisp.html">Lisp</a> Mixin</h1>
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This module provides <a href="../../../classes/Lisp.html">Lisp</a>-like
functional notation. With this module it almost possibel to write real <a
href="../../../classes/Lisp.html">Lisp</a> code in Ruby.
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<h2>Example</h2>
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It&#8217;s hardly believable, but the following IS valid ruby code:
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  (def accumulate (fun, x, list)
    (if (null? list)
      x
    else
      (accumulate fun, (fun.call x, (car list)), (cdr list))
    end)
  end)
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A real programmer can write LISP in any language&#8230; ;)
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<h2>Author(s)</h2>
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<li>Florian Frank

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<li>Thomas Sawyer

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<h2>Legal</h2>
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Based on original work func.rb by Florain Frank. Copyright &#169;2005
Florian Frank &lt;flori@ping.de&gt; Ruby License
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<h2>History</h2>
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<li>2005.04.12

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** Changed the name of Pair class to DottedPair. ** Added a new method
pair! which converts an array to a DottedPair. ** This is then used in car
and cdr to automatically convert arrays passed to them. ** Note: There may
be other places that pair! conversion is needed.
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