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Re: Y Store now C++
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:17:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Y Store now C++
Cc: ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu
To: Daniel Weinreb <DLWeinreb@attbi.com>
From: Geoffrey Knauth <geoff@knauth.org>
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:55 PM, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
>> So what are the hacks that constrain you in Common Lisp -- that you
>> couldn't fix within the language?
> Having separate "value cells" and "function cells" (to use the "street
> language" way
> of saying it) was one of the most unfortuanate issues. We did not want
> to break
> pre-existing programs that had a global variable named "foo" and a
> global function
> named "foo" that were distinct.
Why didn't this have a command-line switch ...
Heh, heh, heh ...