From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Q: FIND-ALL-IF Date: 2000/12/07 Message-ID: <3185212979309107@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 702332244 References: <071220001234283277%sungwoo@cad.strath.ac.uk> <071220001315000152%sungwoo@cad.strath.ac.uk> <3A2FCA03.8020406@everest.com> <87bsuohwck.fsf@orion.bln.pmsf.de> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 976227421 27486 195.0.192.66 (7 Dec 2000 22:17:01 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Dec 2000 22:17:01 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Pierre R. Mai" | With this growing consensous and the reluctance to change the core | standard in mind, it seems to me very unlikely that the *-if-not | functions will go away. And if they go away from the standard, it will take somebody who has implemented them a few millisecond to move them into a different package that all Common Lisp programmers will probably include on their package use lists. This is quite different from the :test-not arguments, which will cause an error once removed. It is therefore likely that even if the standard removes *-if-not, they will not go away in real life, but if it removes :test-not, it will go away. It would be foolish for a standard to do something that it knows will be countered by the user community, so in all likelihood, operators in the standard today will never go away. #:Erik -- "When you are having a bad day and it seems like everybody is trying to piss you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle." -- Unknown