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From: Yutaka OIWA <oiwa@yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To: Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>
Cc: Caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Q: safe language
Date: 31 Aug 2002 01:09:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfiznv449co.fsf@tuba.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Oleg's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:46:50 -0400"

>> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:46:50 -0400, Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com> said:

> On Friday 30 August 2002 09:05 am, David Frese wrote:
>> >  (cadr '(1))
>> 
>> This shows that Lisp is safe, because it results in an error, and does
>> not return some value from out of nowhere (or does it).

> On Debian CMUCL it returns NIL.

In Common Lisp, the cdr of () is defined to be (). The car of () is also ().
I personally hate this definition :-(

# car x = car y, cdr x = cdr y, but x <> y
#                                if x = (()) and y = ()

-- 
Yutaka Oiwa              Yonezawa Lab., Dept. of Computer Science,
      Graduate School of Information Sci. & Tech., Univ. of Tokyo.
      <oiwa@yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, <yutaka@oiwa.shibuya.tokyo.jp>
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-30 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-30  1:36 SooHyoung Oh
2002-08-30  8:41 ` sebastien FURIC
2002-08-30 12:44 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 13:05   ` David Frese
2002-08-30 13:46     ` Oleg
2002-08-30 16:09       ` Yutaka OIWA [this message]
2002-08-30 13:49     ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 14:04       ` J Farrand
2002-08-30 14:26         ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 14:48           ` Nicolas Cannasse
2002-08-30 15:31             ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 14:55           ` Mike Lin
2002-08-30 14:58             ` Eric Newhuis
2002-08-30 16:03           ` Yutaka OIWA
2002-08-30 21:44           ` Oliver Bandel
2002-09-01  8:07         ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-30 14:50       ` David Frese
2002-08-30 15:38         ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 15:28     ` didier plaindoux
2002-08-30 14:41 ` Florian Hars
2002-08-30 14:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse

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