Re: More on dispatching by function return type

[Pascal Costanza <address@hidden>]

On 17 Dec 2003, at 21:57, John Clements wrote:

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> On Dec 17, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Pascal Costanza wrote:
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>> On 17 Dec 2003, at 19:54, Johan wrote:
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>>> The relation to macros is that macros work on program text, rather  
>>> than higher-order expressions.
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>> Lisp macros don't work on program text, but on s-expressions.
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> No, no, I'm a Schemer.  s-expressions _are_ program text.

No, they're not. See  
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=gat-2908031110410001%40k-137-79 
-50-101.jpl.nasa.gov

This was a highly controversial discussion in comp.lang.lisp, but I  
think that Erann Gat is right here.

> john "one of you" clements

:)


Pascal

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