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From: gideon@cs.utexas.edu (Timothy Tin-Wai Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Destructive Operations
Message-ID: <1351@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 03:09:06 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Austin, Computer Science Dept.
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     I've been programming in LISP for quite some time, but I've always
gotten into buggy situations due to my misuse of destructive operations.
In fact, I can't even tell if I've used a destructive operation or not.
Does somebody have a general rule on how to watch out for misuse of
destructive operations?  Or do you know of a reference to books talking
about destructive operations in LISP?

     I'll appreciate any response in advance.


-- 
life () {               /* My life:                           */
   myself--;            /*     Let _myself_ decrease and      */
   Christ++;            /*     let _CHRIST_ increase!!!!      */
}