From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: What's the point of flet? References: <3BDF119D.A51C178B@yale.edu> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3213492104079145@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 04:41:45 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1004503305 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:41:45 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:41:45 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:18860 * Drew McDermott | The only use I can think of for it is to override the definition of an | existing function. You are not allowed to do that for symbols in the COMMON-LISP package, so using the function car as the example is particularly ill-conceived and misleading, but if you have user-defined functions that you would like to try this on, I'm sure that would have some utility. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- Carrying a Swiss Army pocket knife in Oslo, Norway, is a criminal offense.