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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: GET / GETF warning.
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Date: 26 Apr 91 22:53:17 GMT
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In-Reply-To: barmar@think.com's message of 26 Apr 91 21:24:52 GMT


   Date: 26 Apr 91 21:24:52 GMT
   From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)

			In general, it's bad programming practice to use any
   global object as an indicator, because you might clash with another program
   that makes the same mistake.

Whis is why I use arbitrary runtime data (eg (CONS NIL NIL) or
(make-symbol "Meaningful name")) as a tag whenever possible...

These days you might as well make a symbol; if you're concerned about
the storage overhead yu probably shouldn't use plists anyway.