[slime-devel] Feature suggestion

Marco Antoniotti marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu
Thu Aug 24 21:32:21 UTC 2006


On Aug 24, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Michael Price wrote:

> On 8/24/06, Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> You get 3.0.  Also note that in LW if you have
>>
>> (defun forty-two () 42)
>>
>> and you type
>>
>> prompt> forty-two
>>
>> you get an error.  Also note that multi-line input does not seem to be
>> handled.
>>
>> As I said, while it does have shortfalls, I find the LW behavior
>> convenient.
>
> If by "convenient" you actually mean "confusing" then I agree. Very
> "convenient".

Try LW for a while with this feature and you will not find yourself 
confused that much.  Remember that very many people fined "parentheses" 
confusing.

Cheers

Marco



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