Subject: Re: Trivial feature expressions (was Re: Legal ANSI comment form?)
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 23 Aug 2002 14:39:45 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3239102385369207@naggum.no>

* Paul F. Dietz
| Doesn't this feature expression always fail:  (or)
| and this one always succeed: (and)?

  Good catch!  This is a much better way than to use random names.

  Norwegian offers a useful word to remember this.  "Avisand" is used for an
  untrue news item (avis = newspaper, and = duck), often abbreviated to just
  "and".  #-(and) could be read as "ignore this mistake".  Maybe.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.