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Date:	Thu, 27 May 1993 00:53:58 -0400
From:	netapp!byron@netcom.com (Byron Rakitzis)
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To:	alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re:  bug in ~ ?

There are no heirarchical lists in rc. Therefore you can't embed the
null list in an argument list to anything.

~ takes just two lists as arguments. Maybe this will make things clearer:

	~ foo (foo bar) (FOO BAR)

reduces to

	~ (foo) (foo bar FOO BAR)

and evaluates to true. The arguments to ~ don't enjoy any special
property that you might imagine. They are just a word list.