Sujet : Re: Why don't people like lisp?
De : no.email (at) *nospam* nospam.invalid (Paul Rubin)
Groupes : comp.lang.lispDate : 03. Jul 2024, 01:49:33
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Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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Jeff Barnett <
jbb@notatt.com> writes:
In Common Lisp, symbolic constants were defined for the IEEE plus and
minus infinities. I don't recall the syntax at the moment but do
remember they were quite useful in making certain codes easier to read
and understand.
That's pretty horrendous either way (-99999 or -INF) . Better to return
an empty list in the event that that the input is empty. Also if I
understand the intention of that function, you really have to make two
passes through the list, which is simpler anyway.