Re: Blanks in symbol names (was Re: Readable names)

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From: Stanley T. Shebs
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 00:09

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In article <3088@tekchips.TEK.COM> willc@tekchips.UUCP (Will Clinger) writes:

>Ah, but nothing beats Common Lisp, [...]
>you can have a variable whose name consists of no characters at all.  :-(

That's only so that (intern "") works properly!  :-) :-) :-)

							stan shebs
							shebs@cs.utah.edu

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From: shebs%defun.utah.edu.uucp@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley T. Shebs)
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Subject: Re: Blanks in symbol names (was Re: Readable names)
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