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The "implicit it" is called anaphor in Lisp (though using that term for a programming language feature I think only goes back to the 1990s; the idea itself is o
by wiml 9y ago
The "implicit it" is called anaphor in Lisp (though using that term for a programming language feature I think only goes back to the 1990s; the idea itself is older).
(The word "anaphor" here comes from the study of grammar in natural languages.)
- kazinator 9y agoThe usage goes back to Paul Graham and his macros with the implicit it. Which appear in Arc. In which this site is developed.