Subject: Re: What Part of Unspecified Does Kenny Not Understand?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:59:06 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <Mv2dnbLcmvPnyLfVnZ2dnUVZ_qzinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Robert Maas, <usenet2.3.CalRobert@SpamGourmet.Com> wrote:
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| (I don't have access to the ANSI spec AFAIK...
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*Sure* you do!!

    http://alu.org/HyperSpec/Body/fun_maphash.html

[That's as close to ANSI as *anybody* will get these days,
given the poor quality of what ANSI is selling as "the spec".  ;-{  ]

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| ...so I'm just guessing that KMP made the language more concise
| in the ANSI spec, then simply copied that concise language into
| the HyperSpec.
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Don't guess; go look. As DanB points out, the ellipsis was Kenny's,
not Kent's.


-Rob

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