Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!roberts
From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Common Lisp lacks portability
Message-ID: <2004@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 17:47:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2004
Posted: Thu Dec 24 12:47:50 1987
References: <1421@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <233@spt.entity.com> <2126@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 27
Summary: Self referential errors

In article <2126@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> ross@swan.cs.ulowell.edu
	   (Ross Miller) writes:

>Wrong.  Crreeeeaaaak, sound of Common lisp tomb being opened yet again, I
>have read and read, and reread that section looking for a way out.  An
>implementation is free to ignore type checking and not return any errors,
>but it must except the code that declares type checking.  That is not a
             ^  ^
	     |  `-  EXCEPT, meaning make an exception == not accept?
	     `----  ACCEPT, indicating text is a misprint?
>quote, but it is the jist.  Here is a case where a program could be perfectly
>debugged and still fail.

Sorry, it's Christmas eve, I'm waiting for the compiler guys to finish printing
86 separate source files, and I read the above statement several times before
admitting that I couldn't discriminate.
>-- 
>csnet: ross@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu
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