Subject: Re: To be or not to be: the way of Lisp
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:52:45 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <b5qdnR2zyKaQKBzeRVn-sQ@speakeasy.net>
verec  <verec@mac.com> wrote:
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| Emre Sevinc <emres@bilgi.edu.tr> said:
| > (format t "Shakespeare has given us the age-old question, \"To be or 
| > not to be?\" Computer science has given us the answer:~%
| > ~x | ~~~x == ~x" #x2B #x2B (ldb (byte 8 0) (logior #x2B (lognot #x2B))))
| 
| Stupid me! I was expecting 42!
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Off by one; #x2A is the answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything".


-Rob

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