Subject: Re: Read-time _apply_: an external representation for any value
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/04/14
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3133039209460041@naggum.no>

* Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov@poboxes.com>
| (If one wanted to write obfuscated Lisp, one could define the #! reader
| to do different things depending on whether the character after the '!'
| is a slash, or whether the character after the extended token following
| the #! is a space or a left parenthesis...  Whose is the law that says
| that every problem has a perverse solution?)

  I think the world is ready for LERP (Lisp Enhanced by Random Perversion),
  not unlike the Perversion Excused by Random Lispiness already accepted.

#:Erik
-- 
environmentalists are much too concerned with planet earth.  their geocentric
attitude prevents them from seeing the greater picture -- lots of planets are
much worse off than earth is.