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... -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.