From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Matrix type... question on Lisp implementation.. Date: 1999/12/22 Message-ID: <3154854543007221@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 563828667 References: <86vh5tw2dl.fsf@g.local> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 945877215 22929 195.0.192.66 (22 Dec 1999 15:40:15 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879 or +1 510 435 8604; fax: +47 2210 9077; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Dec 1999 15:40:15 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Janos Blazi" | Of course I knew that it was possible to compute powers in CL! But I | EXPT is a function that takes its arguments at runtime and evaluates them | at runtime. why can't you just QUIT posting your ignorant drivel, Janos Blazi? a Common Lisp compiler is free to inline or transform any call to a function in the COMMON-LISP package, including pre-computing its value if the arguments are all compile-time constants. this freedom is OBVIOUSLY not dependent on the number or kind of characters in the name of the function, which you seem to think it is. | When you use rationals you want to have *exact* answers and this is what | I referred to as *symbolic*. is the rest of the janos-speak dictionary available on the Net? | I think we should always use the right tool, sine ira et studio. the right tool is surprisingly often the brain. if it doesn't work, it may be most appropriate to abstain from posting USENET articles, but it may also be acceptable to ask questions instead of posting assumptions. #:Erik