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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Summing a list
Message-ID: <6135@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 88 03:12:55 GMT
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Reply-To: gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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How about
	-> (reduce #'+ '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10))
	55

This will allow the compiler to make any optimizations suitable for the machine
you are running on, and it allows you to avoid thinking about the "most 
efficient way" of representing this.

-- 
Juergen "Gandalf" Wagner,		   gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA