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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
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Subject: Re: What case problem is Franz trying to solve?
Date: 11 Nov 2000 03:28:12 +0000
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* vsync <vsync@quadium.net>
| Hmm.  I'm fairly early in my Lisp programming journey, and curious:
| wouldn't something like a WITH-LOWER-CASE-READER macro be much more
| effective than a global setting?

  What would the macro expand to if not a special variable binding,
  which is a global setting?

#:Erik
-- 
  ALGORITHM: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite
  number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation.
  ALGOREISM: a procedure for solving an electoral problem in a finite
  number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation.