From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: What case problem is Franz trying to solve? Date: 11 Nov 2000 03:28:12 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3182902092734894@naggum.net> References: <3182882219798792@naggum.net> <863dgztnh4.fsf@piro.quadium.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 973916222 22133 195.0.192.66 (11 Nov 2000 04:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Nov 2000 04:17:02 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:3694 * vsync | Hmm. I'm fairly early in my Lisp programming journey, and curious: | wouldn't something like a WITH-LOWER-CASE-READER macro be much more | effective than a global setting? What would the macro expand to if not a special variable binding, which is a global setting? #:Erik -- ALGORITHM: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation. ALGOREISM: a procedure for solving an electoral problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation.