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Issue: TAILP-NIL (Version 4)
- To: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Subject: Issue: TAILP-NIL (Version 4)
- From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 88 23:03:43 PST
- Cc: KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM, SEB1525@draper.com, CL-Cleanup@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- In-reply-to: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM's message of 2 Dec 88 09:43 PST <881202-094406-1195@Xerox>
re: This gives me a reason for wanting to disallow non-lists as the first
argument to TAILP -- that it would have to use EQL to be consistent.
Yea, it seems like we're beginning to over-generalize TAILP. Who uses
this blasted thing anyway? I think I'd MUCH rather support a proposal
to throw it out of the language, on the basis that:
(1) the "test" questions is at least as complex as for defining
EQUAL -- and we never did come to agreement about that;
(2) since almost nobody uses it (??), it's moot anyway.
-- JonL --