eintr: Evaluation

 
 1.6 Evaluation
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 When the Lisp interpreter works on an expression, the term for the
 activity is called “evaluation”.  We say that the interpreter “evaluates
 the expression”.  I’ve used this term several times before.  The word
 comes from its use in everyday language, “to ascertain the value or
 amount of; to appraise”, according to ‘Webster’s New Collegiate
 Dictionary’.
 

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