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issue QUOTE-MAY-COPY, version 3
- To: cperdue@Sun.COM
- Subject: issue QUOTE-MAY-COPY, version 3
- From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 15:04:29 PST
- Cc: cl-compiler@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: Cris Perdue's message of Tue, 3 Jan 89 14:08:41 PST <8901032208.AA04733@clam.sun.com>
re: To say that QUOTE copies in existing implementations is to
imply that a lot of copying might happen that never actually
happens. COMPILE-FILE followed by LOAD effectively copies,
and in KCL, COMPILE effectively makes a copy, but not QUOTE.
This may be repeating previous points, but we've been maintaing that
the phrase "QUOTE copies" does *not* mean that the function QUOTE
does any work -- merely that the semantics of "quoted objects" is such
that you cannot tell whether you got the "original" or some copy
thereof.
-- JonL --