Re: Open-coding, and proliferation of function names

[Kent M. Pitman <KMP at MIT-MC>]

    Date: 3 December 1980 11:17-EST
    From: Jon L White <JONL>

    But in fact you go way astray in picking PLUS for an example -- the "+"
    function is significantly different from PLUS.
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Ah, but I used them EXPLICITLY as examples of functions that don't fall into
this category. You didn't read carefully.

-kmp

ps to those who didn't already catch it in my previous message. There's a
   missing (- ...) which ought to be inside a FIXNUM-IDENTITY in one of the
   displays. If you don't see it, your mind is probably making the right patch
   automatically. If you noticed it, please assume I meant the obviously
   correct thing ...