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From: jmc@DEC-Lite.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: structures
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Date: 23 Apr 91 11:34:54 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 22 Apr 91 18:00:14 GMT

The fact that using slot names as functional arguments requires
special hacks in Lisp is a consequence of the Lisp definers
of objects blindly following the mistakes of Pascal, etc.
CAR and CDR are slot names essentially, and from the very
beginning they were treated as function names.