From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc3.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: On nil qua false [was: Re: On conditionals] References: <3215299538573186@naggum.net> <3215481014063125@naggum.net> <3BFDF255.3153E96F@nyc.rr.com> <87u1vggt5i.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> <9u0n7n$pds$2@rznews2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> <87adx7gbcf.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> <87y9krcf5g.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> <87r8qjc856.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215959457909098@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:04:19 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1006970659 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:04:19 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:04:19 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21221 * Marco Antoniotti | Also, what could be an "agreed upon and simple" machinery such that | all the implementations could check for this "extension"? I think a new package named COMMON-LISP-2002, say, which implements the new symbols and semantics, would be the way to go. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.