Lisp - Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 125, Issue 13

But note, it does a number of things which, coming form a traditional Lisp perspective, I find utterly bizarre, bordering onj the point where I'd call them broken. For example, nil and () are not the same thing, and lambda lists are a magic kind of list, not just lists whose first element is the symbol lambda. Consing two atoms together returns a list, not a dotted pair. Obviously they've managed to make it all hang together, but it is a substantial deviation from tradition and, while I'd have to do more reading and thinking to offer more than speculation, might break the clean design that tradtional Lisp is notable for. Also, anyone considering using it should read the license; it's one of the most confusing licenses I've ever seen and I'm not sure I'm even allowed to run the code. (I feel sure it's supposed to allow that; I'm just not sure it actually does.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B