From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: (loop for ? in ? finally ?) Date: 2000/02/25 Message-ID: <3160481213819408@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 589894230 References: <38B55CF2.1B67F549@iname.com> <38B66866.551F304A@iname.com> <87g0uh31xt.fsf@orion.dent.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> <38B69611.C9220AFC@iname.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 951493383 13153 195.0.192.66 (25 Feb 2000 15:43:03 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879 or +1 510 435 8604; fax: +47 2210 9077; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Feb 2000 15:43:03 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Fernando D. Mato Mira" | Then why not just erasing every sentence saying "is undefined" or "is | unspecified"? primarily because we're human readers in dire need of redundancy. secondarily because sometimes a requirement may seem to or actually imply a too broad claim and may therefore need to be abridged or partially retracted. #:Erik