Subject: Re: Deep copy in lisp: how? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/04/13 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3164643995219305@naggum.no> * Tim Moore <moore@herschel.bricoworks.com> | Topics such as "How do I do a deep copy in Lisp?" cause blood pressures | to rise because Lispers know it's impossible, but that's because the | language is much richer and exposes one to situations where deep copy is | in fact quite hard if not impossible. you're missing the point, as one would expect from a bystander. it isn't the _topic_ that cause any problems. it's the dimwits who come here and ask for advice, and resoundingly _reject_ the advice they get from well-meaning, highly educated people who try to teach pigs to sing, which we know wastes your time and annoys the pig (witness the "practical" line that just _had_ to come our way) only they don't know the dimwits they try to help _are_ pigs until after a while, and then they get annoyed when the pig turns out to be severely limited in learning _ability_, too. #:Erik