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!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: function and lambda, again References: <3224278790110217@naggum.net> <87vgcbq8xb.fsf@nybo.no> <86lmd6dcnr.fsf@fibble.europe.nortel.com> <3C85A728.8B10885C@nyc.rr.com> <87wuwpeue7.fsf@blitz.comp.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3224431984164335@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 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, 06 Mar 2002 19:32:55 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1015443175 193.71.199.50 (Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:32:55 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:32:55 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:27971 * Julian Stecklina | I did it recently when I was porting some old PASCAL code that used a | variable called t. I do not think, that I would make this mistake in | code which is written in Lisp from scratch. | So I do not believe this to be a problem. Well, I consider it a problem. I use x, y, z, t, in my equations on paper all the time, and it annoys me that t is "busy" when I want to do math with Common Lisp. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.