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Re: Mailing List... where are you?



russell.mcmanus@gs.com writes:
> Jay Glascoe <jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov> writes:
> 
> > Also, I've been having problems following the whole "setf" thread.
> > Did anyone ever reach consensus on that thing?
> 
> The fans of CL's setf facility were shouted down in favor of something
> more "Schemely".  This is fair because the CL setf fans seemed to be
> not the ones doing the coding (myself included).
> 
> There is some continuing disagreement about what this beast should be
> called, some prefer 'set!', others something different.
> 

Actually, the original coders liked the CL style but were convinced (I
think) that it was possible to write something that looks like dynamic
dispatch but can compile to code as efficient as CL-style setf without
too much work.

 - Maciek