Subject: Re: a short article about equality in Lisp (for beginners)
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 06:42:03 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <ifSdnTPSgNUWjIvcRVn-tA@speakeasy.net>
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo  <kon@iki.fi> wrote:
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| "Coby Beck" <cbeck@mercury.bc.ca> writes:
| > I remember seeing (or 0 0) => t and being surprised bordering on outraged
| > but that was a while ago when I still knew everything.
| 
| Which Lisp was that?  My guess is Linj.
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For any real Lisp, of course, (OR 0 0) => 0, but maybe he just meant
that (IF 0 T NIL) => T is initially surprising to C programmers.


-Rob

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