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The variables +, -, *, and /
- To: Tim McNerney <TIM@MIT-MC.ARPA>
- Subject: The variables +, -, *, and /
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1985 15:13:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Msg of 4 Dec 1985 04:22-EST from Tim McNerney <TIM at MIT-MC.ARPA>
- Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU
We thought brielfly about such issues and decided that we would quickly go mad
if we tried to avoid stepping on symbols (or ways of using them) for
every other Lisp-like language. That's why there are packages. The
Common Lisp top-level will not mess around with the value of SCHEME:*,
etc. Customize the scheme symbols any way you want, and import from
the LISP package those things that happen to be right.
-- Scott