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Re: Issue: FUNCTION-COMPOSITION (Version 2)
- To: Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Subject: Re: Issue: FUNCTION-COMPOSITION (Version 2)
- From: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Date: 7 Nov 88 15:13 PST
- Cc: CL-Cleanup@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- In-reply-to: Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>'s message of Thu, 13 Oct 88 17:08 EDT
The points I remember from the meeting not reflected since are:
While it is useful to encourage the "functional style" of programming,
these functions are *not nearly enough* to do that. That is, if you really
wanted to build a useful library, you would find these few functions
inadequate.
Extensions that no current vendor offers -- even those that have extensive
sets of extensions to Common Lisp in their product -- should be viewed with
great suspicion.