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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 ...