Kenny Tilton ktilton at nyc.rr.com
Sun Oct 19 00:14:39 EDT 2003

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Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:

> And it often involved asking questions, whose answers were already known.
> 

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! i did that when I asked someone about using 
symbols as initargs instead of keywords on defstructs, when of course 
defstruct creates the initargs without offering any overrides, so I knew 
the answer: "um, no, those are keywords".

But then I felt my subterfuge would be obvious and it would be 
understood to be a  clever way to point out that there was a standard 
practice the symbol initarg crowd was corrupting in order to calm their 
package paranoia (induced by package abuse (necessitated by bad naming)).

kenny "the sophist"

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