Subject: Re: Q: FIND-ALL-IF From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: 2000/12/07 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3185212979309107@naggum.net> * "Pierre R. Mai" <pmai@acm.org> | With this growing consensous and the reluctance to change the core | standard in mind, it seems to me very unlikely that the *-if-not | functions will go away. And if they go away from the standard, it will take somebody who has implemented them a few millisecond to move them into a different package that all Common Lisp programmers will probably include on their package use lists. This is quite different from the :test-not arguments, which will cause an error once removed. It is therefore likely that even if the standard removes *-if-not, they will not go away in real life, but if it removes :test-not, it will go away. It would be foolish for a standard to do something that it knows will be countered by the user community, so in all likelihood, operators in the standard today will never go away. #:Erik -- "When you are having a bad day and it seems like everybody is trying to piss you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle." -- Unknown