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two minor comments: DISASSEMBLE-SIDE-EFFECT & DRIBBLE-TECHNIQUE
- To: "cl-cleanup" <cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu>
- Subject: two minor comments: DISASSEMBLE-SIDE-EFFECT & DRIBBLE-TECHNIQUE
- From: "AITG::VANROGGEN" <vanroggen%aitg.decnet@hudson.dec.com>
- Date: 17 Feb 88 14:58:00 EDT
- Cc: vanroggen
- Reply-to: "AITG::VANROGGEN" <vanroggen%aitg.decnet@hudson.dec.com>
Before I send more mail, let me state that I have not been following
the cleanup subcommittee mail, so I may be repeating previous arguments.
I'm not on the cl-cleanup mailing list, either, btw.
The comment about what VAX LISP does for DISASSEMBLE-SIDE-EFFECT is
incorrect; we don't modify the function cell of the symbol if the
function is interpreted. I think we changed the behavior when the
mail about this issue first came up, which was several years ago.
DRIBBLE-TECHNIQUE: For a while the way we implemented DRIBBLE made it
impossible to have nested DRIBBLEs. We fixed this problem many years
ago, but at the time a suggested error message was:
No double dribbling allowed.
---Walter
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