From: Clint Hyde -- Master of the ad hoc odd hack.
Subject: RE: Different LISPs
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 22:13:39 +0000
Message-ID: <mgv30jINNl2k@news.bbn.com>

re: the ((ad 3) 2) discussion:

I missed the beginning of this, where perhaps it was explained...but:

what's the purpose of doing this? why is this any better than (+ 3 2) ?

granted that the example is simple, and perhaps of curiousity value more
than anything...

 -- clint

i've never written, and would probalby never write, code that looked and
behaved like that.

From: Jussi Piitulainen
Subject: Re: Different LISPs
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 07:37:55 +0000
Message-ID: <JPIITULA.93Dec16093755@tikkanen.helsinki.fi>

In article <············@news.bbn.com> Clint Hyde -- Master of the ad hoc odd hack. <·····@bbn.com> writes:
   re: the ((ad 3) 2) discussion:
   I missed the beginning of this, where perhaps it was explained...but:
   what's the purpose of doing this? why is this any better than (+ 3 2) ?
   []

Although ((ad 3) 2) is not better than (+ 3 2), (ad 3) might be
preferable to #'(lambda (b) (+ 3 b)), at least sometimes.