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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!barmar
  2. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: (SETF VALUES)
  5. Date: 12 Jan 1993 16:00:27 GMT
  6. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
  7. Lines: 13
  8. Message-ID: <1iupurINNih2@early-bird.think.com>
  9. References: <SJAMESON.93Jan8084615@fergie.atl.ge.com> <1imgf4INNmf@early-bird.think.com> <SJAMESON.93Jan11145337@fergie.atl.ge.com>
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  11.  
  12. In article <SJAMESON.93Jan11145337@fergie.atl.ge.com> sjameson@atl.ge.com writes:
  13. >Thank you, I understand now.  I don't have a Cltl2 or draft standard handy, but
  14. >isn't there such a thing as multiple-value-setf which would serve exactly this
  15. >purpose? 
  16.  
  17. No, there's only a MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ.
  18.  
  19. In hindsight, having separate SETQ and SETF was a bad design, IMHO.
  20. -- 
  21. Barry Margolin
  22. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  23.  
  24. barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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