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From: Johannes.Leveling@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Johannes Leveling)
Subject: Q: About Scheme's quote 
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 11:33:21 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Oct26.114504.27370@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
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(Re-write of a former post)
In evaluating (define 'x 1) from Scheme's command line,
I found out various reactions from various Scheme interpreters :
PCS (PC Scheme) : identifies this is an error
                  (unbound variable x)
SCM             : does not recognize this to be an error,
                  but seems to evaluate this as 
                  (define ' 1)
ELK             : does not recognize this as error, but
                  'loops' with : increase heap-size, collect garbage
Despite knowing that (define 'x 1) makes no sense at all,
(I tried to define a variable like PCSs 'console)
my question is : Why is this not recognized as an error by all
                 Scheme interpreters mentioned ?
               
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