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From: hoey@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: GET / GETF warning.
Summary: CLtL2 should be more explicit
Message-ID: <641@zogwarg.etl.army.mil>
Date: 26 Apr 91 15:35:50 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
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The fact that GET/GETF use EQ instead of EQL needs to be emphasized
more.  Such as a remark that it is an error to use a number as an
indicator in the property list.

It's all the worse that for many implementations EQL fixnums are EQ,
so you don't see the bug until your problem gets into bignums.

This might be a useful thing to put in the FAQ list, too.

Dan