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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Subject: Re: Pass by ref & generalized assignment
Date: 2000/07/25
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* SRS <srs43@my-deja.com>
| My (newbie) question is: Why doesn't Lisp have pass by reference as
| well ...

  Because C++ doesn't have multiple return values.

#:Erik
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