Re: Order of evaluation in general

[Randy%acorn@oak.lcs.mit.edu]

    From: larus%paris.Berkeley.EDU@berkeley.edu (James Larus)
    Date: Thu, 21 May 87 09:43:16 PDT
    
    Leaving the order of evaluation of actual parameters unspecified (a la
    Scheme) would help some serial, as well as parallel, implementations.
    ...

I realize that it was explicitly stated (somewhere) that Common 
Lisp is ignoring issues of parallelism.  Given that parellel is 
going to be the next fad, it's probably time to start thinking about
parallel issues.  In addition to special forms like PROGN-IN-ANY-ORDER
(or some more aesthetic name), there should be versions of DO-family
and MAP-family functions that could frotz with order however they 
wanted.

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