From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: was: newline and concatenate. length of a lisp function References: <6b4aa54a.0107250746.7782514e@posting.google.com> <3yF77.3090$BN6.79113@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3205088270665958@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:17:51 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 996099471 193.71.66.49 (Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:17:51 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:17:51 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:13544 * kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) > Invoking an interpretive formatter to glue strings together is neat, > but possibly inefficient, not to mention needlessly cryptic. What made you believe it is "interpretive"? Have we not had this stupid discussion about interpreter versus compiler enough times already? As for cryptic, Greek is cryptic to non-Greeks. Just learn the language. Ignorance of the language is no excuse. #:Erik -- There is nothing in this message that under normal circumstances should cause Barry Margolin to announce his moral superiority over others, but one never knows how he needs to behave to maintain his belief in it.