I stand corrected. I guess I believed Hal Abelson when he used "Scheme"/"Lisp" interchangeably.
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 2:39:32 AM UTC+2, Alexis wrote: > > > Sebastian Bensusan <sbe...@gmail.com <javascript:>> writes: > > > As a side notes, in Lisp it is convention to append "!" to those > > functions that have side-effects (i.e. mutate state). > > Well, not in /all/ Lisps. :-) It is the convention in Scheme[1], > for example, but not in e.g. Emacs Lisp or Common Lisp. In the > latter, for example, c.f. 'nconc', which modifies lists in-place. > > > Alexis. > > [1] Modulo debates about whether or not Scheme is 'really' a Lisp. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
