From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: count symbols in a list Date: 02 Dec 2002 09:42:35 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3247810955277366@naggum.no> References: <3247805927894274@naggum.no> <873cpgu842.fsf@Astalo.y2000.kon.iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1038822155 16375 129.240.65.5 (2 Dec 2002 09:42:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 2002 09:42:35 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:47884 * Kalle Olavi Niemitalo | As TAIL is the last cons on LISTS, doesn't this violate CLHS 3.6 | (Traversal Rules and Side Effects)? No. Please see the glossary entry for object-traversing. If you really /feel/ this is bogus, just unroll the `dolist´ macro. No problem, right? -- 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.