Executing Multiple Statements

Often one needs to execute multiple function calls, in order, as a single unit.

      (begin statement_1 ... statement_n)

will execute the statements in order. The value of begin is the the value of statement_n.

Multiple statements are automatically allowed:

This is sometimes referred to as an implicit begin. (In Common Lisp, progn is used instead of begin.)

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