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Re: small Q

Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org> writes:

| The debate over what is essential and what is mere convenience is 
| impossible to decide.  When it comes down to it, you don't *need* 
| anything more than raw lambda and applicative order evaluation.  You 
| don't *need* objects, you don't *need* numbers, you don't even *need* 
| "if".

How do you branch without "if"?
In case you mean that you don't need "if" as a special form, I agree.

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