From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: introduction to Lisp... References: <63637457.0204040727.798c0862@posting.google.com> <3CB08CFE.97DF9311@enterprise.net> <3cb83675$1_2@Usenet.com> <3cb8cdee_5@Usenet.com> <3cb99abb$1_9@Usenet.com> <3cb9d299$1_6@Usenet.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3227805084642225@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:31:25 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1018816285 193.71.199.50 (Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:31:25 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:31:25 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:31687 * s@xss.de (Stefan Schmiedl) | ... which is an "expensive" way of reinventing a builtin function called | "flatten". There is no "builtin" function called "flatten". Please do not post your beliefs as though they were facts when you can so easily check them. | you might want to take a look at other sorting functions, for | example those for strings ... Maybe you mean comparison functions rather than sorting functions? | I have the feeling that you need to unlearn some old habits to be able to | write idiomatic lisp programs. Maybe you should delay your advice for a while. /// -- 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. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg