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Re: boole, and the still pending name problem - Q & A
- To: Earl A. Killian <EAK at MIT-MC>
- Subject: Re: boole, and the still pending name problem - Q & A
- From: JonL at PARC-MAXC
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1982 03:22:00 -0000
- Cc: Common-Lisp at SU-AI
- In-reply-to: EAK's message of 21 July 1982 22:13-EDT
Q: Thus BOOLE is indeed useful only on rare occasions, but on those
occasions, what else would you use?
A: BITBLT
Which is probably what the *functional* BOOLE user wanted anyway.
Seriously, what are some examples that support the need for a *functional*
BOOLE? (other than general backwards compatibility, and as Moon points
out, the documented version doesn't even satisfy that.)