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``Special Forms in Lisp'' by Kent Pitman (August, 1980)

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This paper appears in the Conference Record of the 1980 Lisp Conference, Stanford University, August 25-27, 1980. The substance of the original text appears in normal fonting, though a small number of out-and-out typos were corrected. Oddities of spelling that were the custom of the time (either generally, or just for me) were left alone. Some formatting of headings and tables was adjusted slightly for HTML. Any new text that has been added appears bracketed and in color green; such text is intended to help clarify the historical context, since considerable time passed between the time this paper was published and the time I converted it to HTML. --Kent Pitman, 11-Oct-1998. Annotated original document follows. Click here for an index of other titles by Kent Pitman. Kent Pitman [address at time of publication] MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Special forms are those expressions in the Lisp language which do not follow normal rules for evaluat

``Special Forms in Lisp'' by Kent Pitman (August, 1980) Special Forms in Lisp This paper appears in the Conference Record of the 1980 Lisp Conference , Stanford University, August 25-27, 1980. The substance of the original text appears in normal fonting, though a small number of out-and-out typos were corrected. Oddities of spelling that were the custom of the time (either generally, or just for me) were left alone. Some formatting of headings and tables was adjusted slightly for HTML. Any new text that has been added appears bracketed and in color green; such text is intended to help clarify

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