From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Pass by ref & generalized assignment Date: 2000/07/25 Message-ID: <3173538444289964@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 650656653 References: <8ljmq0$8t2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ljvat$j1i$1@c3po.schlund.de> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 964552802 800 195.0.192.66 (25 Jul 2000 19:20:03 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jul 2000 19:20:03 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Philip Lijnzaad | Moreover, it looks very ugly, for the simple reason that this isn't Lisp. If you're new to (Common) Lisp, it helps your growing credibility to avoid such obvious "my mind isn't big enough for this!" complaints. | Using this 'trick', you start violating the | objects-passed-in-can't-be-changed expectations of other | readers/users of your code. What kind of expectation is that? Seems awfully unwarranted to me. It could almost be something left over from some Scheme course. #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.