Ken Tilton  <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
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| Rob Warnock wrote:
| > Ken Tilton  <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
| > +---------------
| > | That was mine until I remembered a requirement that the solution be 
| > | "side-effect safe", which I assume is a misreporting of the teacher's 
| > | requirement that it be "side-effect free".
| > +---------------
| > 
| > I didn't read it that way, which is why I thought using LOOP...COLLECT
| > would be fine.
| > To me, "side-effect safe" meant that the *inputs* were to be safe
| > from side effects...
| 
| Are you trying to say "non-destructive"? :)
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Yeah, probably, as in "safe to pass quoted constants to".

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| Your guess is as good as mine (literally!), we won't know until the OP 
| starts a "Lisp Sucks" blog blaming you setf-happy people for his 
| flunking out of school and ending up living under a bridge in Florida.
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As I pointed out, one can't be *sure* that LOOP...COLLECT uses SETFs
under the hood in the student's CL implementation. It doesn't *have* to.

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| Hope yer happy!
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Happy, happy, joy, joy, John Spartan! May you have a tranquil day!


-Rob

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