From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: setf & setq, newbie needs short definitions/examples Date: 2000/03/24 Message-ID: <3162858660978623@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 601701069 References: <8bbcad$oo2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8bdt2s$hc7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 953893376 26808 195.0.192.66 (24 Mar 2000 10:22:56 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Mar 2000 10:22:56 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Tim Bradshaw | This is useful for things like swapping variables, and other things: | | (psetq x y | y x) | | exchanges x and y (although there are more idiomatic ways of doing this, | perhaps). like (rotatef x y). #:Erik