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MAKE as a new name for SETF (gasp!)
- To: Skef Wholey <Wholey at CMU-20C>
- Subject: MAKE as a new name for SETF (gasp!)
- From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1982 03:07:00 -0000
- Cc: Common-Lisp at SU-AI
Gasp, indeed. MAKE is used throughout Common Lisp as a prefix
indicating the creation (allocation) of a new data structure. To use
MAKE for an operation that alters a slot in an existing data structure
would be terribly confusing. I like this even less than changing SETF
to SET.
-- Scott