[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" <[email protected]> writes: >> Could you provide me some background why 1+ exists, as it is the same >> as (+ 1, and why is it named like this? > > It'll be hard to get a definite answer: these procedures have "always" > been there, at least since Jim Blandy became Guile's maintainer: > > commit 0f2d19dd46f83f41177f61d585732b32a866d613 > Author: Jim Blandy <[email protected]> > Date: Thu Jul 25 22:56:11 1996 +0000 > > That's a long time ago...
Probably because Common Lisp has 1+ and 1-. -- Lindsay (Carlton): nighttime baker! sounds a little iffy
