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- To: snyder@HPLABS.ARPA
- Subject: keywords
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1985 02:53:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Msg of 3 Dec 1985 17:07-EST from snyder at hplabsd
- Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU
It is certainly terrible style to use a keyword as the name of a
function or to give it any properties. The book doesn't seem to say
whether "it is an error" to do either of these things. I think it
should be an error. On the other hand, I don't know of any Common Lisp
that goes to the trouble of signaling such an error or that special
cases keyword symbols in such a way as to eliminate the function and
property-list cells.
-- Scott
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