From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Common Lisp, the one true religion! References: <9nc1vu$6a2ng$1@ID-60069.news.dfncis.de> <3B9A68B6.4AF52FE0@isomedia.com> <3208966756647218@naggum.net> <3B9BF281.BB7A9D73@mediaone.net> <3209070617000512@naggum.net> <3B9CE2BD.B76EE230@mediaone.net> <3209132967595154@naggum.net> <3B9D03BF.35726BB4@mediaone.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3209135864079498@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:37:44 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1000147064 193.90.206.132 (Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:37:44 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:37:44 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:16080 * Carl Gay > Okay Erik, you win. Yeah! I love winning! > In fact I used to be quite careful about wrapping my lines manually > before sending but I honestly thought all newsreaders would wrap them if > they were wider than the screen these days. In using long lines I have > been trying to work around Outlook Express Disease, but if the cure is > worse than the disease for some people then I'm happy to change back. Tell Outlook Express victims that they can turn off this misfeature and if they refuse to do so, just ignore them. > Are you going to say why you think it's false? It is inherently self-limiting in scope and therefore irrelevant. > I don't understand. Why does this have anything to do with Scheme? Why > did you get the impression that I think Common Lisp is Scheme? Because your view of what macros can do is also self-limiting, just like Scheme is. Keep an open mind to what macros can do and do not think of them as merely "syntax extensions". They are that, too, of course, but not only that. ///