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Re: Issue: STACK-LET (Version 1)
- To: KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
- Subject: Re: Issue: STACK-LET (Version 1)
- From: cperdue@Sun.COM (Cris Perdue)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 88 15:48:53 PDT
- Cc: Common-Lisp@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
> * I sometimes get more results by suggesting something overly conservative
> and letting people suggest that it's not right or not enough than I do by
> suggesting originally the thing in full blown form. The latter strategy
> often gets me not taken seriously, whereas the first strategy offers a
> foot in the door to people who readily grasp the concepts of the stripped
> down proposal and who might after admitting the topic for discussion still
> arrive at the same position as I'd have originally wanted to propose.
Whoah up, here. We'd better watch what we do, or we could get into
a nontechnical intellectual discussion here. (Thanks Kent for the thoughts.)
-Cris