From: Tim Bradshaw on
On 2010-03-02 17:11:22 +0000, Tamas K Papp said:

> A somewhat tangential question: lately I am gravitating towards
> SPOTTED-DOG? instead of SPOTTED-DOG-P. Is that "bad style" in CL? Looks
> so much nicer, and appears more intuitive to me.


Disgusting scheme heathen, please report for burning.

From: Slobodan Blazeski on
On Mar 2, 6:11 pm, Tamas K Papp <tkp...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:01:37 +0000, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> > In another newsgroup, someone is complaining fiercely that
> > "SPOTTED-DOG-P" does not subtract "P" and "DOG" from "SPOTTED".
>
> A somewhat tangential question: lately I am gravitating towards
> SPOTTED-DOG? instead of SPOTTED-DOG-P.  Is that "bad style" in CL?  Looks
> so much nicer, and appears more intuitive to me.
>
> Tamas

When I realized that I've also realized that I'm a closeted Schemer.

Slobodan
From: Raffael Cavallaro on
On 2010-03-02 12:59:23 -0500, Ron Garret said:

> I don't use autocompletion myself because the
> CCL IDE doesn't have it so I tend to forget about it.

../ (i.e., meta-/)
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Raffael Cavallaro

From: Raffael Cavallaro on
On 2010-03-02 14:04:33 -0500, Raffael Cavallaro said:

> ./ (i.e., meta-/)

hmm, don't know how that came out that way:

⌥/ (i.e., meta-/)

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Raffael Cavallaro

From: Raffael Cavallaro on
On 2010-03-02 11:29:37 -0500, Ron Garret said:

> If you see a
> Chinese character or a sign language gesture that you don't know,
> there's no way to look it up.

Well I can't speak to ASL, but this isn't true of chinese - there are
chinese dictionaries - you look characters up by their constituent
radicals.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_character)>
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Raffael Cavallaro