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] ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
