Subject: Re: introduction to Lisp...
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:31:25 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3227805084642225@naggum.net>

* s@xss.de (Stefan Schmiedl)
| ... which is an "expensive" way of reinventing a builtin function called
| "flatten".

  There is no "builtin" function called "flatten".  Please do not post your
  beliefs as though they were facts when you can so easily check them.

| you might want to take a look at other sorting functions, for
| example those for strings ...

  Maybe you mean comparison functions rather than sorting functions?

| I have the feeling that you need to unlearn some old habits to be able to
| write idiomatic lisp programs.

  Maybe you should delay your advice for a while.

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