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From: christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Common LISP style standards.
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 20:41:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 20:41:27 1986
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In article <2784@jhunix.UUCP> of Sun, 11-May-86 04:58:41 GMT
ins_amrh@jhunix.UUCP writes:
>	- How do you reference global variables?  Usually you enclose it
>	  in "*"s, but how do you differentiate between your own vars and
>	  Common LISP vars such as *standard-input*, *print-level*, etc?

I'd suggest enclosing your global var's in something else then stars.

>	- NULL vs ENDP, FIRST vs CAR, etc.  Some would say "FIRST" is
>	  more mnemonic, but does that mean you need to use
>	  (first (rest (first X))) instead of (cadar X) ??

I use car, cdr, cons when I use conses as nodes in trees, but first, second,
third, rest, n:th etc. when I use them as sequences.

I think Steel says something on the ue of endp vs. null vs. not.
I think null and endp works different on arguments that are conses with cdr
being an other atom then null.
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