From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.netway.at!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: quest for pass-by-reference semantics in CL References: <2h6627rlr0.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <2hsn5araqe.fsf@vserver.cs.uit.no> <3229347076995853@naggum.net> <3229608336004164@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3229709484528017@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 21:31:24 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1020720684 193.71.199.50 (Mon, 06 May 2002 23:31:24 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 23:31:24 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:32963 * Erann Gat | That's news to me. I've never heard of this distinction before. Could | you please cite a reference? It was intended to make you think. It did not work this time, either. I am sorry that you need somebody else to tell you the same thing I do before you can muster the brainpower to think about something. Your curious selectivity in asking for references is quite telling. It is a sort of passive-aggressive behavior that I associate with cowards who think they can get away with their not-so-veiled hostilities. | Kent's approach is to invent a new story about argument passing that he | calls "call-by-identity". Did he provide any references for this novel term? Why do you ask for references as a means of terrorizing people into silence when it is so obvious that you are being a hostile prick even when people try to deal with you as the intelligent being you once were and actually try to answer your mostly retarded questions seriously? Geez, I keep making the mistake of believing you will recover, somehow. -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.