Re: Need help with Class-Allocated Slots

• To: rwk@americom.com
• Subject: Re: Need help with Class-Allocated Slots
• From: Jason Trenouth <jason@harlequin.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:54:55 +0100
• Cc: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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On 28 Jun 2000 19:00:02 -0600, rwk@americom.com wrote:

> Lisp is pristine, but many programmers don't like it for just that
> reason.  If pristine was the measure, Dylan could have stayed with the
> prefix syntax too.  I would prefer convenient in this case over
> pristine.

Common Lisp is a long way from pristine. One of the motivations for Dylan was
to pristinify Lisp.

__Jason

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