Subject: Re: Q: FIND-ALL-IF
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/12/07
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3185212979309107@naggum.net>

* "Pierre R. Mai" <pmai@acm.org>
| With this growing consensous and the reluctance to change the core
| standard in mind, it seems to me very unlikely that the *-if-not
| functions will go away.

  And if they go away from the standard, it will take somebody who has
  implemented them a few millisecond to move them into a different
  package that all Common Lisp programmers will probably include on
  their package use lists.  This is quite different from the :test-not
  arguments, which will cause an error once removed.  It is therefore
  likely that even if the standard removes *-if-not, they will not go
  away in real life, but if it removes :test-not, it will go away.  It
  would be foolish for a standard to do something that it knows will be
  countered by the user community, so in all likelihood, operators in
  the standard today will never go away.

#:Erik
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