Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!lostwithiel!nobody From: Tim Bradshaw Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Recreational Common Lisp :) Date: 10 May 2003 13:20:30 +0100 Organization: Cley Ltd Lines: 18 Sender: tfb@lostwithiel Message-ID: References: <060520030623188998%nospam@iam.invalid> <060520031307021934%nospam@iam.invalid> <8ytjddkd.fsf@ccs.neu.edu> <070520031534541968%nospam@iam.invalid> <87el3apd5y.fsf@darkstar.cartan> <070520031644052325%nospam@iam.invalid> <080520030301004020%nospam@iam.invalid> <20030508063523.A20049@mapcar.org> <080520031323270406%nospam@iam.invalid> <20030509023707.C20049@mapcar.org> <090520030507072029%nospam@iam.invalid> <090520032010574386%nospam@iam.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: lostwithiel.cley.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1052570103 23948 212.240.242.98 (10 May 2003 12:35:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 12:35:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) * Mark Conrad wrote: > The half-vast "fix" of "define-symbol-macro" does not fix this basic > problem of ANSI CL being incapable of creating a toplevel non-special > variable either, as I demonstrated with this code: I'm sorry. We've been through this before, and at least two versions of the DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO hack were given that worked. You should *look at them*, rather than trying to reinvent what they do and getting it wrong because you don't understand enough. This refusal to listen to, and learn from, what people are saying is why you aren't getting on very well. One of them (mine) is available at http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/toys.html#GLEX. The others are available from google groups. --tim