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choice of terminology for recursively versus simply expanded variables?


From: Robert P. J. Day
Subject: choice of terminology for recursively versus simply expanded variables?
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11)

  i understand entirely *how* those variables differ but, personally,
i've always thought of them as "delayed evaluation" versus "immediate
evaluation." is there a reason that that terminology wasn't used here?
i mean, even simply expanded variables are processed "recursively",
aren't they?

rday

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