Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
+---------------
| When there are two namespaces, there are, in effect, twice as many
| names of any given length since names in a given context are being
| used up only half as fast.  That is, in a Lisp1, there are only 26
| one-letter names, but in a Lisp2 there are 52 storage locations named
| by one-letter names.  And so on.
+---------------

"And so on", indeed! Given the near-universal naming conventions
followed by practitioners of CL for globals, one could even argue
that there are actually *104* [pardon the pun] storage locations
named by "one-letter" names...  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

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