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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: copy-array?
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 17:13:11 GMT
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- In article <19920915145558.5.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com (Scott McKay) writes:
- >A "shame" is an understatement. I think that, at the very least, this
- >correction to MAKE-ARRAY should be proposed during the dpANS public
- >review period.
-
- Please do so.
-
- > (Note that I do not consider this a true correction of
- >an error of omission, not simply an extension.)
-
- If it's "not ... a ... correction", and "not ... an extension", what is
- it? Or was the first "do not" an error?
-
- I'd consider this an extension. Our charter was to clarify the language
- as specified in CLtL, and add a condition system, iteration facility,
- and OO system. We didn't limit ourselves strictly to this, but we tried
- not to go overboard. I'm not saying that this particular feature is a bad
- idea, but since it adds to the language as specified in CLtL, strictly
- speaking it's an extension.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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