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- From: SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com (Scott McKay)
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- Subject: Re: copy-array?
- Message-ID: <19920915183257.1.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 18:31:41 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:13 EDT
- From: Barry Margolin <barmar@think.com>
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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.
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- Please do so.
-
- To whom to I send such correspondences?
-
- > (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.
-
- Yes, strictly speaking, this is an extension. But as I said, I consider
- it an error of omission, and any correction of an error of omission must
- by its nature be an extension "strictly speaking".
-
- I'll submit a correction/request for extension.
-