From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: COMPLEMENT, again Date: 1999/06/21 Message-ID: <3138981460897056@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 492208570 References: <3138883562099900@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Erik Naggum | (define-complement = /=) interestingly, this (and many other) seemingly complementary functions are only complementary with two arguments. with one argument, as in (= 1), most of these predicates yield true, and a complement should yield false. with three or more arguments, as in (= 1 1 2), both may be false and (not (= ...)) is thus very different from (/= ...). oh, well. #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century