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From: d-yang@cs.columbia.edu (David Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Problem with (apply #'or <list>)? (cl 3.0.1)
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.065508.28609@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 06:55:08 GMT
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why (apply #'or '(t nil t nil))
shouldn't work.  What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for any help,
David Yang
d-yang@cs.columbia.edu

Script started on Fri Feb 15 01:40:19 1991
$ lisp
sh: lisp: not found
$ ../lisp
;;; 
;;; Sun Common Lisp, Development Environment 3.0.1, 27 October 1988
;;; Sun-4 Version for SunOS 4.0 
;;;
;;; Copyright (c) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 by Sun Microsystems, Inc., All Rights Reserved
;;; Copyright (c) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 by Lucid, Inc., All Rights Reserved
;;;
;;; This software product contains confidential and trade secret
;;; information belonging to Sun Microsystems.  It may not be copied
;;; for any reason other than for archival and backup purposes.

> (apply #'or '(t nil t nil))
>>Error: OR called with 4 arguments, but only 2 arguments are allowed

OR:
   Required arg 0 (FORM): T
   Required arg 1 (ENVIRONMENT): NIL
:C  0: Ignore extra arguments
:A  1: Abort to Lisp Top Level

-> (apply #'+ '(1 2 3 4))
10
-> (quit)
$ 

script done on Fri Feb 15 01:41:04 1991