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: Finding the arity of a function References: <3209905225011524@naggum.net> <3209914469619918@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3209919564966848@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:19:26 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1000930766 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:19:26 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:19:26 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:16589 * Sam Steingold > this reflects what the implementors considered to be a reasonable name. > shouldn't their opinion count? Only if they _had_ an opinion, i.e., if they thought about another name. If they did not consider alternatives, but just copied someone else, there is nothing to consider in their quantity. You obviously want this to be a stupid quantity contest instead of considering the valued opinion of people who express them, so I shall leave you alone. > > > 3. this code was released 2-3 years ago, so this incompatible change > > > might break the user code. > > A renaming would obviously not remove the old name. > > when I rename a file, I cannot refer to it using the old name, right? Are you being intentionally obtuse or just incredibly dense? You gave us the code to "alias" arglist to function-lambda-list and you cannot figure out how to do it the other way around? Sorry, but this level of exchange is just not worth engaging in, and I regret that you found it useful to revert to your old mode of so unintelligent communication. ///