Re: Left folds Bradley Lucier 20 Sep 2022 00:32 UTC

On 9/18/22 6:41 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Can you demonstrate this using a fold-oid with a side-effecting getter?
> Chibi evaluates its arguments right to left, Chicken and most other
> Schemes (see <https://docs.scheme.org/surveys/argument-order/
> <https://docs.scheme.org/surveys/argument-order/>>) evaluate them left
> to right.

About 20 years ago, Gambit reversed the order that arguments were
evaluated each time it was rebuilt---there was some quirk in the
compiler that made it so.  I don't know whether this is still the case.

Brad