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M-expressions were used for the original theoretical language in early papers about Lisp, but the first working implementation of Lisp interpreted encodings of M-expressions as S-expressions, and M-expressions were never actually implemented.
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M-expressions and were
S-expressions were originally intended only for data to be manipulated by M-expressions, but the first implementation of Lisp was an interpreter of S-expression encodings of M-expressions, and Lisp programmers soon became accustomed to using S-expressions for both code and data.
In computer programming, M-expressions ( or meta-expressions ) were intended to be the expressions used to write functions in the Lisp programming language.
M-expressions and used
McCarthy's original notation used bracketed " M-expressions " that would be translated into S-expressions.
M-expressions and S-expressions
Data to be manipulated using M-expressions was to be written using S-expressions.
were and used
Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.
Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.
In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.
Ballets were used in opera from its beginning.
Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.
In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.
Previously, FN actions were used for the larger cartridges.
Opaque cantaloupe and transparent wood brown were used.
Stainless steel screws were used to minimize corrosion stains.
A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.
These cells were used rather than square Pyrex tubing because of the tendency of the latter to shatter when thawing frozen carbon tetrachloride.
Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.
Three of the anti-Rh sera used were taken from recently sensitized individuals.
In several instances group O cells were also used as controls.
The red cells were used within 2 days after donation and were washed with large amounts of saline before use.
Homozygous and heterozygous Af cells, Af and homozygous and heterozygous Af cells were used to test each sample ; ;
The saline tubes were saved and used for the indirect Coombs test in the following manner.
The anti-human sera used were prepared by injecting whole human serum into rabbits.
The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.
A flow rate of 72 Af was used and 12 ml fractions were collected.
When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.
were and for
He hovered over her to shield her, for spent bullets were thudding against the rear walls.
Mr. Manuel whispered in the ears of the Sioux that the Cheyennes were comin' to raid 'em for their horses.
Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.
If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.
It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.
Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.
They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.
There were seven of them, enough for a show of strength -- to run a bluff.
Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.
Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.
No sooner were they through and the guards posted, than the whole camp turned in for a night of sound sleep.
There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.
They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.
These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.
And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.
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