Marco Antoniotti  <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
+---------------
| Rob Warnock wrote:
| > Marco Antoniotti  <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
| > +---------------
| > | Alan Crowe wrote:
| > | > Don't forget t for thymine. All your DNA code wants to use
| > | > the letters A,C,G,T as variable names.
| > | 
| > | Nope.  My DNA handling code wants to use the symbol 't to
| > | denote thymine.  As such I can use it as much as I want.
| > +---------------
...
| >     > (let ((acgt (vector 'a 'c 'g 't)))
| >         (loop for i below 200 collect (aref acgt (random 4))))
...
| > Hey, this DNA stuff is fun!!   ;-}  ;-}
| 
| Yes.  Apart from the fact that in this case you really do not want to 
| use a symbol, but probably a character.  A symbol is too heavy for this 
| sort of things. :}
+---------------

Then why did *you* say "My DNA handling code wants to use the
symbol 't to denote thymine"?!?

Or did I get the previous-posting nesting/quoting wrong?


-Rob

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