From: bbound@...
Date: 2007-10-08T14:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: which language allows you to change an argument's value?

On Oct 7, 2:59 pm, Jerry Coffin <jcof...@taeus.com> wrote:
> 4.7.3.2. Name Replacement (call by name)
>
> Any formal parameter not quoted in the value list is replaced,
> throughout the procedure body, by the corresponding actual parameter,
> after enclosing this latter in parentheses wherever syntactically
> possible. Possible conflicts between identifiers inserted through this
> process and other identifiers already present within the procedure will
> be avoided by suitable systematic changes of the formal or local
> identifiers involved.

This sounds rather like macro expansion as found in languages ranging
from TeX to various flavors of shell and make.

> The universe is a figment of its own imagination.

I can't recall -- what was the formal name in philosophy for this
thesis?