From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: quest for pass-by-reference semantics in CL References: <2hsn5araqe.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <3229347076995853@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3229728592271191@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 02:49:52 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1020739792 193.71.199.50 (Tue, 07 May 2002 04:49:52 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 04:49:52 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:32988 * Bruce Hoult -> Erann Gat | You're implying that I don't understand Lisp bindings and values? I am not satisfied to imply it: You demonstrate a serious lack of understanding of several such core issues. This is quite amazing. | That would be a very strange thing if true, since I'm a member of the | core team working on a Lisp-family compiler. Gee. How tragic. But strange? No. Using such "credentials" to prove that you have understood something is also quite amazingly ridiculous. -- 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. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.