From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hub.siol.net!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.kpnqwest.at!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nnum.kpnqwest.net!EU.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Un-Great (Newbie) Expectations [was Re: Why is this code broken?] References: <2hvg8sskp6.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <3D03EC84.933FCD7B@dls.net> <3D03F3A5.E00083B4@dls.net> <3D040264.388E4A5C@dls.net> <3D04963B.98307CB7@dls.net> <3D04C1F7.D20F5169@nyc.rr.com> <86bsaiqdz4.fsf@gondolin.local.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3232785036135788@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 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, 11 Jun 2002 11:50:41 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1023796241 193.71.199.50 (Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:50:41 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:50:41 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:34713 * Alain Picard | Especially when I discovered that I didn't need to write a special case | in a function I was writing because | | (reduce #'* '()) => 1 | and | (reduce #'+ '()) => 0 | | I was in heaven! Whoever designed that understood their group theory. | :-) I assume you know that (*) => 1 and (+) => 0, too, but just in case... -- 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.