From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Removing an item from a list? References: <3CBF0E57.A51F1E60@hongkong.com> <87ofggwbwr.fsf@becket.becket.net> <6cNv8.58530$Kq4.2303373@news2.calgary.shaw.ca> <87k7r4w60r.fsf@becket.becket.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3228233858807932@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:37:39 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1019245059 193.71.199.50 (Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:37:39 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:37:39 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:32040 * "Coby Beck" | I don't see how you can support that statement. I thought it was a fairly obvious attempt at the kind trolling we have become used to from people who have learned Scheme from some textbook that failed to teach iteration and recursion as morally equivalent. Sadly, some of those are unable to understand how deeply annoying their trolling attempts are, convinced as they are of the moral superiority of recursion and of its "intrinsic elegance" and other such nonsense obvious to anyone who has not been similarly brainwashed. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. Post with compassion: http://home.chello.no/~xyzzy/kitten.jpg