> In article <··················@mc.lcs.mit.edu> ···@martigny.ai.mit.edu writes:
> >Sorry, but I don't recall seeing this rationale written down
> >anywhere. I suggest writing to Sussman directly (···@martigny.ai.mit.edu)
> >for the "official" story.
>
> Didn't Pitman and Sussman author a paper about this in Lisp Pointers about
> five years ago?
Maybe you're thinking of this reference:
Gabriel and Pittman, "Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and
Value Cells", Lisp and Symbolic Computation, v1, n1, 81-101 (1988).
Fred White
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