From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Simple newbie list processing troubble Date: 02 Oct 2002 23:05:16 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3242588716893862@naggum.no> References: <10b28c6c.0209280104.52056c24@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1033599917 1741 129.240.65.5 (2 Oct 2002 23:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Oct 2002 23:05:17 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:42795 * Dorai Sitaram | I didn't understand your motivation for this example, | but converting the example itself seems a lost cause. If so, it would also be impossible to execute. Is it? | Your only way out is to follow the Paul Graham tack of scrupulously | abstaining from the ability to use the same symbol as both operator name | and non-operator variable. I think you should say "my only way out" when that is what you mean. | You are writing as a Lisp1er (eg, Schemer) would, except that, unlike | them, you are still saddled with the funcall/#' machinery even though it | isn't buying you anything in an informational sense. I think products and vendors should be judged by the intelligence of their marketing. So Scheme must be the choice of the pretty dumb. -- 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.