Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!mvs.draper.com!SEB1525 From: SEB1525@mvs.draper.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Question about INTERN Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 13:35:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 11 On 30 Jan 91 22:51:06 GMT Barry Margolin wrote: >...and I sometimes wish the Common >Lisp designers had had the guts to get rid of SETQ);... Do you mean that you wish that SETQ had been flushed in favor of SETF, or that side-effecting variables via assignment should have been prohibited? - Steve Bacher