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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Waving the lambda flag again (was: Constants and DEFCONSTANT)
Date: 1999/04/07
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* David Gadbois <gadbois@lagavulin.cyc.com>
| I'm stumped.  Are you talking about doing:
| 
| (defun encode-time-values (days seconds milliseconds)
|   (dpb seconds (byte 17 10)
|        (dpb milliseconds (byte 10 0)
|             (ash days 27))))
| 
| ?

  no.

  I'm hinting at encoding year-month-day and hour-minute-second as bytes in
  a fixnum.  little did I know this would be paper material in complexity.

#:Erik