From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: how to concatenae two symbols??? Date: 16 Aug 2002 17:38:00 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3238508280043614@naggum.no> References: <1029374394.970955@spynews3> <1eaf81aa.0208142223.3650d713@posting.google.com> <1eaf81aa.0208150922.2b50248b@posting.google.com> <3238436747006793@naggum.no> <1eaf81aa.0208151948.6e53c7a6@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 1029519480 19819 193.71.199.50 (16 Aug 2002 17:38:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@KPNQwest.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Aug 2002 17:38:00 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:38119 * Vijay L | I don't understand. Why is it *wrong* to discard the values? I don't care | about the second value returned by INTERN. Why should I bother if it is | :INTERNAL :EXTERNAL or whatever? Because you write your function also for others who might value these additional values from `internĀ“. | I don't program on that scale. I've just started off. Additional values will never get in your way unless you look for them. What you do amounts to looking for them only to discard them. This is stupid. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.