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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker)
Subject: Re: Why is `not' a procedure?
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 21:04:33 GMT
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In article <3agfp4$hdb@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
>This is probably another stupid question, but:
>
>How would anyone know whether NOT were a special form or not?  What test
>could I perform as a Scheme user to find out?

CLtL1 conveniently offered the predicate 'special-form-p'.

      Henry Baker
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