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Re: Common Lisp "let"

To: Paul Prescod <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Common Lisp "let"
From: Bruce Lewis <address@hidden>
Date: 03 Jun 2002 11:47:18 -0400
Cc: Pixel <address@hidden>, address@hidden
In-reply-to: Paul Prescod's message of "Sun, 02 Jun 2002 11:33:25 -0700"
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Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

> <group name="wheel" passwd="XXXX" gid="0" user_list="root paul john"/>

You have structured data in user_list where the structure is not done
via XML syntax.  To get the benefits of XML, you need something more
like this:

<group name="wheel" passwd="XXXX" gid="0">
  <group-member>root</group-member>
  <group-member>paul</group-member>
  <group-member>john</group-member>
</group>

People using XML often instinctively switch to a less painful syntax for
structuring data.  The same doesn't happen when using s-exprs.

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Follow-Ups:
- Re: Common Lisp "let"
  - From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- XML syntax (was: Common Lisp "let")
  - From: Nathan Carl Summers <rock@gimp.org>

References:
- RE: Common Lisp "let"
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- Re: Common Lisp "let"
  - From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Re: Common Lisp "let"
  - From: Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>
- Re: Common Lisp "let"
  - From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>

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