Subject: Re: data hygiene [Re: Why is Scheme not a Lisp?]
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:10:19 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3225694232096978@naggum.net>

* "Paul F. Dietz" <dietz@interaccess.com>
| The result of the caar is not needed immediately.  You can software
| pipeline these side operations while you continue to cdr down the alist.

  But the _exact_ same thing can be done for the property list!

  I do not think you have worked this out for property lists to see how
  similar the effect is.

  *sigh*  

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