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From: guido@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news,net.lang.lisp
Subject: Bad writing style example
Message-ID: <6363@boring.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 14:17:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 14:17:50 1985
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Reply-To: guido@boring.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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An interesting example, showing why it is not a good idea to justify
right margins, just turned up in net.lang.{lisp,ada}.  I have suppressed
the author's name to protect him.

	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido@mcvax.UUCP

>Having  just  seen a small program using arrays and structures in Common
>Lisp turn into a moderaterately sized program because defstruct  created
>copy-function  does  not fully copy the structure to which it is applied
>but instead array-structure-members reference  the  same  array  as  the
>original  structure to which the copy function was applied, I am willing
>to believe arrays and structures in  Common  Lisp  were  designed  by  a
>committee.   By the way testing arrays or structures for equality in the
>equal sense is not possible using equal or any function of which I know.
>Am  I  missing  something?   Having  powerful functions for manipulating
>strings and lists and truly wimp-like functions for handling  structures
>and arrays seems rather silly.