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[ART@THINK-AQUINAS.ARPA: Another
- To: Guy Steele <gls@AQUINAS.THINK.COM>
- Subject: [ART@THINK-AQUINAS.ARPA: Another
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1986 21:56:00 -0000
- Cc: COMMON-LISP@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Msg of 18 Mar 1986 17:36-EST from Guy Steele <gls at THINK-AQUINAS.ARPA>
- Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU
I am a bit leery of #+ignore or
#+++ignore, because some turkey could make IGNORE or ++IGNORE be a feature
after all and ruin everything; but #+(or) strikes me as an acceptable
idiom (but perhaps #-(and) is better to emphasize its negative nature).
Feh! This is by far the ugliest and most confusing construct ever
proposed for Common Lisp (not counting Format, of course). I don't
think that this problem needs to be solved, but if it does I find #;
infinitely preferable, even though it wastes a perfectly good macro
character.
-- Scott