From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: What's up with #'? Date: 16 Nov 2002 18:38:36 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3246460716197851@naggum.no> References: <3DD67D16.2010608@nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037471916 6457 129.240.65.5 (16 Nov 2002 18:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Nov 2002 18:38:36 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46900 * Kenny Tilton | Do you mean #' indicates there is something wrong with CL? It's just | shorthand. What don't you like about it? I'll tell you what I do not | like: if i doubleclick #'this, my editor only selects this, not #'this. | but that is not enough to make me code this: (symbol-function 'this) But would you write (function this), which it actually means? I think hips that have just been shot from have a distinct smell. -- 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.