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Flushing old-style DO.

CC: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC, (BUG LISPM) at MIT-MC

    Date: 10 April 1980 23:18-EST
    From: Eric J. Swenson <EJS at MIT-MC>

        Date: 10 April 1980 22:53-EST
        From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC>
        To:   EJS
        cc:   BUG-LISP, BUG-LISPM at MIT-AI
        Re:   Flushing old-style DO.

        There is a saying about such ideas: "you're in charge!".
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    I don't understand this.  Please explain.
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It means that you proposed something that sounds nice but is
impossible to implement (think of all the code that uses old-style
DO!) so we put you in charge of the project confident that it will
never happen!