Subject: Re: N00b question on let
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:42:21 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <j4mdnTKr3JNgyPDYnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Timofei Shatrov <grue@mail.ru> wrote:
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| A better example would be (-3)^3=-27
| (- (expt 3 3)) is 27, which is not what we want.
| Inconsistency!
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Hunh? Common Lisp agrees completely with classical mathematics
in this case:
cmu> (expt -3 3)
-27
cmu> (- (expt 3 3))
-27
cmu>
Where's the inconsistency?
-Rob
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