From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Extract function from strings Date: 01 Nov 2002 13:40:16 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3245146816264706@naggum.no> References: <87ela63dru.fsf@winny.home> <87vg3i8h1b.fsf@darkstar.cartan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036158016 3768 129.240.65.5 (1 Nov 2002 13:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Nov 2002 13:40:16 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:45403 * Nils Goesche | (ii) Are you sure you want to call WRITE and not PRINC? I always use `write´ these days, instead of the `print´ family. It makes it easier to remember exactly which printer variables are used and affected. More often than not, being unaware of printer variables causes bugs that are extremely hard to find, and those who blithely assume that they have "reasonable" values have no room for reasonable disagreement over what is reasonable. (Or I use `format´.) -- 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.