From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Trivial feature expressions (was Re: Legal ANSI comment form?) Date: 23 Aug 2002 14:39:45 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3239102385369207@naggum.no> References: <3D655868.BFE4C243@cs.cmu.edu> <87u1lmqiaw.fsf@Astalo.y2000.kon.iki.fi> <3D660F51.3BEE3D56@dls.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1030113586 25744 129.240.64.16 (23 Aug 2002 14:39:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Aug 2002 14:39:46 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:38582 * Paul F. Dietz | Doesn't this feature expression always fail: (or) | and this one always succeed: (and)? Good catch! This is a much better way than to use random names. Norwegian offers a useful word to remember this. "Avisand" is used for an untrue news item (avis = newspaper, and = duck), often abbreviated to just "and". #-(and) could be read as "ignore this mistake". Maybe. -- 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.