Path: utzoo!censor!hugh
From: hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: (get nil 'foo) => ?  in CL?
Keywords: xlisp, boyer.cl, easy question
Message-ID: <95@censor.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 02:17:31 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bell Canada, Business Development, Toronto
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 I have a question that should be easy.
What should:

(get nil 'foo)

return in Common lisp?
I tried to run the Boyer.cl benchmark in xlisp2.0 and got
something like that and it returned an error.
A quick check in Steele's book told me that the first argument
to get must be a symbol.  Should xlisp treat nil as a symbol
here & return nil, or is the problem in the code that evaluated
to "(get nil 'foo)"

Please e-mail.  Thanks in advance.

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