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Re: Backquote idioms
- To: DCP@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA, smh@MIT-EDDIE.ARPA, KMP@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA
- Subject: Re: Backquote idioms
- From: Daniel L. Weinreb <DLW@TENEX.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 85 14:09 EDT
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: <850522164152.8.NFEP@NEPONSET.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Reply-to: dlw@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA
Date: Wed, 22 May 85 16:41 EDT
From: David C. Plummer in disguise <DCP@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>
I am not saying that 69 levels of backquote should not be defined. I am
saying that it should not be encouraged for people writing programs.
I rather doubt that any users, upon seeing the explanation in the manual,
will then rush to their terminals so use triple-nested backquotes. It's
not something that people will be "encouraged" to use; in fact, most people
will have a very hard time figuring out why you'd ever use it. So I don't
think there's much to worry about.