Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@hex.net> wrote:
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| just because I can write:
|
| (DEFUN DO-SOMETHING-SILLY (LIST)
| (LIST (CDR LIST) 'SHORTENED-BY-ONE))
|
| thereby using LIST for several things, does not mean that this is
| actually a wise idea.
|
| (DEFUN DO-SOMETHING-SILLY (LST)
| (LIST (CDR LST) 'SHORTENED-BY-ONE))
| is probably slightly easier to grok.
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Even better, to my taste, is something like this:
(DEFUN DO-SOMETHING-SILLY (SILLIES)
(LIST (CDR SILLIES) 'SHORTENED-BY-ONE))
I also tend to avoid names like "NUMBER", "CHAR", "VECTOR", etc.
-Rob
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