Re: More on dispatching by function return type

[Joe Marshall <address@hidden>]

Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de> writes:

> On 17 Dec 2003, at 21:57, John Clements wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 17, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Pascal Costanza wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 17 Dec 2003, at 19:54, Johan wrote:
>>>
>>>> The relation to macros is that macros work on program text, rather
>>>> than higher-order expressions.
>>>
>>> Lisp macros don't work on program text, but on s-expressions.
>>
>> 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.

No, he wasn't.