Re: Simple newbie list processing troubble

Subject: Re: Simple newbie list processing troubble
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 02 Oct 2002 23:05:16 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3242588716893862@naggum.no>

* Dorai Sitaram
| I didn't understand your motivation for this example,
| but converting the example itself seems a lost cause.

  If so, it would also be impossible to execute.  Is it?

| Your only way out is to follow the Paul Graham tack of scrupulously
| abstaining from the ability to use the same symbol as both operator name
| and non-operator variable.

  I think you should say "my only way out" when that is what you mean.

| You are writing as a Lisp1er (eg, Schemer) would, except that, unlike
| them, you are still saddled with the funcall/#' machinery even though it
| isn't buying you anything in an informational sense.

  I think products and vendors should be judged by the intelligence of
  their marketing.  So Scheme must be the choice of the pretty dumb.

-- 
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.