Quoting Drew McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I may be repeating what others have said, but I half agree with your
> "bah."  CMUCL should you warn you (as some other Lisp implementations
> do) when you're about to redefine something you shouldn't.

It was just a pedagogical example; I would never in
practice try to redefine a builtin. Certainly Lisp packages 
allow me to create my own namespace to avoid unfortunate
name collisions. Yes, by default, the user most definitely should
be issued a warning when doing something dangerous.

--w

Wayne O. Cochran
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Washington State University Vancouver
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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