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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
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Subject: Re: Why character syntax-copying can't work
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* Erann Gat
| When I say "dotted lists are a bad idea" I'm referring to the data structure,
| not the syntax. [...] But, rather like "eval", I believe that more often than
| not the existence of a dot indicates a problem in design.

  Splendid!  So association lists are misdesigned, too.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.