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Exercise 1.4

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Observe that our model of evaluation allows for combinations whose operators are compound expressions. Use this observation to describe the behavior of the following procedure:

(define (a-plus-abs-b a b)
  ((if (> b 0) + -) a b))

Corresponding Section: 
1.1.6 Conditional Expressions and Predicates

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