Subject: Re: Un-Great (Newbie) Expectations [was Re: Why is this code broken?]
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:50:41 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3232785036135788@naggum.net>

* Alain Picard
| Especially when I discovered that I didn't need to write a special case
| in a function I was writing because
| 
| (reduce #'* '())  => 1
| and
| (reduce #'+ '())  => 0
| 
| I was in heaven!  Whoever designed that understood their group theory.
| :-)

  I assume you know that (*) => 1 and (+) => 0, too, but just in case...
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