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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: zeta lisp
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.221044.24565@Think.COM>
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References: <1991Apr09.110422.19604@kub.nl>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 22:10:44 GMT

In article <1991Apr09.110422.19604@kub.nl> pberck@kub.nl writes:
>I am 'translating' a program written in ZetaLisp for someone, and I am
>not sure what (zl:MEM ... ..) does, because I don't have the zl
>package. He is away for a week, so I can't ask him, ... so I am trying
>it this way.

(ZL:MEM predicate item list) is equivalent to
(MEMBER item list :TEST predicate)

In Zetalisp, MEMQ used EQ, MEMBER used EQUAL, and MEM used a
caller-supplied test function.
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