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From: iam@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Ian Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: lost soul needs help with trivial code.
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Date: 19 Feb 91 18:58:18 GMT
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try the following, somewhat more in the spirit of lisp

(define f (list)
   (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (- (cadr x) (car x))) list)))

		-iam-