[pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

Luke Crook luke at balooga.com
Fri Jan 21 17:00:48 UTC 2011


On Jan 21, 2011, at 2:40, Tord Romstad <tord.romstad at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:22 PM, karol skocik <karol.skocik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some time ago, I tried to communicate on IRC channel about a very,
>> very simple addition:
>> string+, which is obviously a nice, small name for (apply
>> #'concatenate 'string strings).
>
>
> Therefore, if you really need a function for string concatenation and
> want to share it with the world, please name it string*, not string+
>
To my eye, string* would indicate a function that performs the same
function as string, but with a different set of args.

For example draw-rect and draw-rect-*

-Luke




More information about the pro mailing list